RNDr. Petr Procházka Ph.D.
Position full-time researcher
Direction behavioural ecology and migration of birds
Workplace Research facility Brno
+420 543 422 550
+420 723422117

Running Projects
Finished projects
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Current students
- Vojtěch Brlík: Stable isotope ecology on the move: from improving continental-wide isoscapes to tracing non-breeding habitat conditions and year-round niche use (Ph.D. thesis).
- Petra Kaštánková: Fledging success and postfledging behaviour in common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) fostered by two hosts (MSc thesis).
- David Caha: Non-breeding habitat selection in the Great Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) (MSc thesis).
- Jaromíra Zálišová: Year-round specialists? Habitat niches of migratory birds on breeding and wintering grounds (BSc thesis).
Former students
- Terézia Mikolášová, 2021: Factors affecting dispersal distances and survival in juvenile Eurasian reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) (BSc thesis).
- Lukáš Kulísek, 2017: Host nest predation by brood parasites: critical assessment of current hypotheses, (BSc. thesis).
- Mgr. Václav Jelínek, 2017: The role of the nest in the reproduction of the great reed warbler, (Ph.D. thesis).
- Petra Baslerová, 2014: Factors affecting breeding and natal dispersal in the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus).
- Lucie Halová, 2013: Proximate factors affecting nestling begging in passerines and their broodparasites.
- Michal Šulc, 2012: The role of UV reflection in parasitic egg rejection in the reed warbler.
- Drahomíra Fainová, 2008: Genetic variation and differentiation of Eurasian reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) populations.
- Richard Policht, 2004: Migration of the reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Publications
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Grim T, Samaš P, Procházka P, Rutila J (2014).
Are tits really unsuitable hosts for the Common Cuckoo?. Ornis Fennica, 91: 166-177.
2013
2012
Honza M, Procházka P, Požgayová M (2012).
Do weather conditions affect the colouration of great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus eggs?. Folia zoologica, 61: 219-224.
Procházka P, Jelínek V, Požgayová M, Honza M (2012).
Jak určovat stáří rákosníků velkých (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) po úplném pelichání. Sylvia, 48: 57-73.
2011
2010
Sychra O, Literák I, Najer T, Čapek M, Koubek P, Procházka P (2010).
Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from estrildid finches (Aves: Passeriformes: Estrildidae) and louse-flies (Insecta: Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from birds in Senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genus Brueelia. Zootaxa, 2714: 59-68.
2009
2008
2007
Procházka P, Požgayová M, Honza M (2007).
Zajímavý případ mezidruhové krádeže hnízdního materiálu. Sluka, 4: 91-94.
Šicha V, Procházka P, Honza M (2007).
Hopeless solicitation? Host-absent vocalization in the common cuckoo has no effect on feeding rate of reed warblers. Journal of Ethology, 25: 147-152.
2006
Procházka P (2006).
Analýza stabilních izotopů – alternativní metoda studia migrace ptáků. Sylvia, 42: 3-21.
2005
Požgayová M, Procházka P, Honza M (2005).
Predace snůšky pěnice černohlavé (Sylvia atricapilla) strakapoudem velkým (Dendrocopos major). Sluka, 2: 97-101.
2004
Honza M, Procházka P, Stokke BG, Moksnes A, Roskaft E, Čapek Jr. M, Mrlík V (2004).
Are blackcaps current winners in the evolutionary struggle against the common cuckoo?. Journal of Ethology, 22: 175-180.
Hořák D, Klvaňa P, Procházka P (2004).
Vliv vysychání mokřadu na druhové složení a početnost chytaných pěvců. Sylvia, 40: 111-118.
Procházka P, Honza M (2004).
Egg discrimination in the Yellowhammer. Condor, 106: 405-410.
2003
Hořák D, Procházka P, Cepák J, Zárybnický J (2003).
Tahové poměry sýkořic vousatých (Panurus biarmicus) na území České republiky a Slovenska. Sylvia, 39: 79-94.
, Málková P, Procházka P (2003).
Proceedings of the European Conference Black Grouse - endangered species of Europe. Prague, 8-12 September 2003. Sylvia, 39: 1-128.
2002
Procházka P, Reif J (2002).
Movements and settling patterns of Sedge Warblers (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - an analysis of ringing recoveries. The Ring, 24: 3-131205 .