Dmitry Kishkinev

Ecology of Animal Migration Lund University.

An international course for postgraduate students
Nov 2025 will run again in Lund University. Will cover theoretical and practical aspects of animal migration research, locomotion, orientation and navigation, tracking and ecophysiology www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

20.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.

A study published in Nature showing that Australian Bogong moths possess a star compass based on Milky Way doi.org/10.1038/s415...

19.06.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant Seasonal migration in animals is a widespread and complex phenomenon, yet the mechanisms underlying orientation and navigation remain poorly understood in many taxa. While significant progress has bee...

Our recent exciting results about Red Admirals' compasses - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

08.05.2025 11:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Out in @animalecology.bsky.social and open access, this beauty showing that older common terns navigate more efficiently than younger ones and that efficient navigation leads to a reduced migration duration and earlier arrival at the breeding and wintering grounds: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

28.01.2025 07:46 — 👍 68    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 1

Screenshot of the paper front page.

Now this is exciting.

Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

05.03.2025 14:25 — 👍 128    🔁 47    💬 2    📌 8

Happy to join BlueSky - follow me who followed my personal and/or Anim_Navigation X/Twitter account!

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