RNDr. Petr Procházka, Ph.D.

Position: head
Research topics: behavioural ecology and migration of birds
Department: Department of Avian Ecology
Phone: +420 543 422 550
Mobile: +420 723 422 117
E-mail: prochazkaivb.cz

Research

Adopting different approaches I am investigating various aspects of brood parasitism and migratory connectivity in birds and their consequences for reproductive performance and population ecology.

Please, feel free to send me an e-mail if you need PDF copies of my papers.

Current students

Petra Baslerová, Lucie Halová, Václav Jelínek, Michal Šulc

Other activities

Bird of the Year 2011 was the yellowhammer. Please, join the accompanying project Dialects of Czech Yellowhammers that aims at exploring the distribution of dialects on the territory of the Czech Republic and at promoting citizen science among amateur ornithologists. See also here.

Results from 2011 can be found here and here. The project will continue in 2012.

Editor of SYLVIA

Projects

European Reed Warbler populations across a migratory divide: insights into migration by analyses of DNA sequences, stable isotopes and ringing recoveries

Geographical gradients of avian diversity in sub-Saharan Africa: A life history perspective

Publications

2012

M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ: Within- and between-season repeatability of eggshell colouration in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Journal of avian biology 43 (2012) 91-96.

T. NAJER, O. SYCHRA, I. LITERÁK, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. ČAPEK, P. KOUBEK: Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genera Brueelia and Philopteroides, Acta Parasitologica 57 (2012) 90-98.

2011

J. M. AVILÉS, J. R. VIKAN, F. FOSSOY, A. ANTONOV, A. MOKSNES, E. ROSKAFT, J.A. SHYKOFF, A. P. MOLLER, H. JENSEN, P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE: The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is not locally adapted to its reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus host, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24 (2011) 314-325.

M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, K. MORONGOVÁ, M. ČAPEK, V. JELÍNEK: Do nest light conditions affect rejection of parasitic eggs? A test of the light environment hypothesis, Ethology 117 (2011) 539-546.

M. HONZA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. I. CHERRY: Blue-green eggshell coloration is not a sexually selected signal of female quality in an open-nesting polygynous passerine, Naturwissenschaften 98 (2011) 493-499.

L. POLAČIKOVÁ, M. E. HAUBER, P. PROCHÁZKA, P. CASSEY, M. HONZA, T. GRIM: A sum of its individual parts? Relative contributions of different eggshell regions to intraclutch variation in birds, Journal of avian biology 42 (2011) 370-373.

M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, L. POLAČIKOVÁ, M. HONZA: Closer clutch inspection—quicker egg ejection: timing of host responses toward parasitic eggs, Behavioral Ecology 22 (2011) 46-51.

P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE, H. JENSEN, D. FAINOVÁ, E. BELLINVIA, F. FOSSOY, J. R. VIKAN, J. BRYJA, M. SOLER: Low genetic differentiation among reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus populations across Europe, Journal of avian biology 42 (2011) 103-113.

2010

M. ČAPEK, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Repeated presentations of the Common Cuckoo increase nest defense by the Eurasian Reed Warbler but do not induce it to make recognition errors, Condor 112 (2010) 763-769.

M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, V. ŠICHA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ: Nest defence in a cuckoo host: great reed warblers risk themselves equally for their own and parasitic chicks, Behaviour 147 (2010) 741-756.

J. KRALJ, P. PROCHÁZKA, D. FAINOVÁ, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, V. TUTIŠ: Intraspecific variation in the wing shape and genetic differentiation of Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus in Croatia, Acta Ornithologica 45 (2010) 51-58.

L. POLAČIKOVÁ, B. G. STOKKE, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA, A. MOKSNES, E. ROSKAFT: The role of blunt egg pole characteristics for recognition of eggs in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos), Behaviour 147 (2010) 465-478.

P. PROCHÁZKA, J. REIF, D. HOŘÁK, P. KLVAŇA, R. W. LEE, E. YOHANNES: Using stable isotopes to trace resource acquisition and trophic position in four Afrotropical birds with different diets, Ostrich 81 (2010) 273-275.

O. SYCHRA, I. LITERÁK, T. NAJER, M. ČAPEK, P. KOUBEK, P. PROCHÁZKA: 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 (2010) 59-68.

O. SYCHRA, E. BARLEV, I. LITERÁK, M. ČAPEK, P. KOUBEK, P. PROCHÁZKA: The chewing lice (Phthiraptera) of red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) in Senegal, with a description of a new species, African Entomology 18 (2010) 17-22.

2009

L. POLAČIKOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. I. CHERRY, M. HONZA: Choosing suitable hosts: common cuckoos Cuculus canorus parasitize great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus of high quality, Evolutionary Ecology 23 (2009) 879-891.

M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Adjustment of incubation according to the threat posed: a further signal of enemy recognition in the Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla?, Journal of Ornithology 150 (2009) 569-576.

M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Sex-specific defence behaviour against brood parasitism in a host with female-only incubation, Behavioural Processes 81 (2009) 34-38.

2008

P. PROCHÁZKA, E. BELLINVIA, D. FAINOVÁ, P. HÁJKOVÁ, A. ELHALAH, K. ALOMARI: Immigration as a possible rescue of a reduced population of a long-distant migratory bird: Reed warblers in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan, Journal of Arid Environments 72 (2008) 1184-1192.

P. PROCHÁZKA, K. A. HOBSON, Z. KARCZA, J. KRALJ: Birds of a feather winter together: migratory connectivity in the Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Journal of Ornithology 149 (2008) 141-150.

O. SYCHRA, J.-K. JENSEN, M. DE L. BROOKE, A. TRNKA, P. PROCHÁZKA, I. LITERÁK: The identity of Menacanthus eisenachensis Balát (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) from the Reed Warbler (Passeriformes: Sylviidae), Acta Parasitologica 53 (2008) 404-406.

2007

M. HONZA, L. POLAČIKOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA: Ultraviolet and green parts of the colour spectrum affect egg rejection in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92 (2007) 269-276.

M. HONZA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, E. TKADLEC: Consistency in egg rejection behaviour: responses to repeated brood parasitism in the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), Ethology 113 (2007) 344-351.

L. POLAČIKOVÁ, M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, J. TOPERCER, B. G. STOKKE: Colour characteristics of the blunt egg pole: cues for recognition of parasitic eggs as revealed by reflectance spectrophotometry, Animal Behaviour 74 (2007) 419-427.

P. PROCHÁZKA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, M. HONZA: Zajímavý případ mezidruhové krádeže hnízdního materiálu, Sluka 4 (2007) 91-94.

B. G. STOKKE, I. HAFSTAD, G. RUDOLFSEN, B. BARGAIN, J. BEIER, D. B. CAMPAS, A. DYRCZ, M. HONZA, B. LEISLER, P. L. PAP, R. PATAPAVIČIUS, P. PROCHÁZKA, K. SCHULZE-HAGEN, R. THOMAS, A. MOKSNES, A. P. MLLER, E. ROSKAFT, M. SOLER: Host density predicts presence of cuckoo parasitism in reed warblers, Oikos 116 (2007) 913-922.

V. ŠICHA, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Hopeless solicitation? Host-absent vocalization in the common cuckoo has no effect on feeding rate of reed warblers, Journal of Ethology 25 (2007) 147-152.

2006

M. HONZA, V. ŠICHA, P. PROCHÁZKA, R. LEŽALOVÁ: Host nest defense against a color-dimorphic brood parasite: great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) versus common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus), Journal of Ornithology 147 (2006) 629-637.

P. PROCHÁZKA: Analýza stabilních izotopů – alternativní metoda studia migrace ptáků, Sylvia 42 (2006) 3-21.

2005

M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Predace snůšky pěnice černohlavé (Sylvia atricapilla) strakapoudem velkým (Dendrocopos major), Sluka 2 (2005) 97-101.

2004

M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE, A. MOKSNES, E. ROSKAFT, M. ČAPEK JR., V. MRLÍK: Are blackcaps current winners in the evolutionary struggle against the common cuckoo?, Journal of Ethology 22 (2004) 175-180.

D. HOŘÁK, P. KLVAŇA, P. PROCHÁZKA: Vliv vysychání mokřadu na druhové složení a početnost chytaných pěvců, Sylvia 40 (2004) 111-118.

P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Egg discrimination in the Yellowhammer, Condor 106 (2004) 405-410.

2003

D. HOŘÁK, P. PROCHÁZKA, J. CEPÁK, J. ZÁRYBNICKÝ: Tahové poměry sýkořic vousatých (Panurus biarmicus) na území České republiky a Slovenska, Sylvia 39 (2003) 79-94.

P. MÁLKOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA: Proceedings of the European Conference Black Grouse - endangered species of Europe. Prague, 8-12 September 2003, Sylvia 39 (2003) 1-128.

P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Do common whitethroats (Sylvia communis) discriminate against alien eggs?, Journal für Ornithologie 144 (2003) 354-363.

2002

P. PROCHÁZKA, J. REIF: Movements and settling patterns of Sedge Warblers (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - an analysis of ringing recoveries, Ring 24 (2002) 3-13.


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HOME GENERAL INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF IVB STAFF PUBLICATIONS PROJECTS BOARD OF INSTITUTE SUPERVISORY BOARD FOLIA ZOOLOGICA NEWS PRESS RELEASE CONFERENCE LINKS BIENNIAL REPORT	RNDr. Petr Procházka, Ph.D. Position: head Research topics: behavioural ecology and migration of birds Department: Department of Avian Ecology Phone: +420 543 422 550 Mobile: +420 723 422 117 E-mail: prochazkaivb.cz Research Adopting different approaches I am investigating various aspects of brood parasitism and migratory connectivity in birds and their consequences for reproductive performance and population ecology. Please, feel free to send me an e-mail if you need PDF copies of my papers. Current students Petra Baslerová, Lucie Halová, Václav Jelínek, Michal Šulc Other activities Bird of the Year 2011 was the yellowhammer. Please, join the accompanying project Dialects of Czech Yellowhammers that aims at exploring the distribution of dialects on the territory of the Czech Republic and at promoting citizen science among amateur ornithologists. See also here. Results from 2011 can be found here and here. The project will continue in 2012. Editor of SYLVIA Projects European Reed Warbler populations across a migratory divide: insights into migration by analyses of DNA sequences, stable isotopes and ringing recoveries Geographical gradients of avian diversity in sub-Saharan Africa: A life history perspective Publications 2012 M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ: Within- and between-season repeatability of eggshell colouration in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Journal of avian biology 43 (2012) 91-96. T. NAJER, O. SYCHRA, I. LITERÁK, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. ČAPEK, P. KOUBEK: Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genera Brueelia and Philopteroides, Acta Parasitologica 57 (2012) 90-98. 2011 J. M. AVILÉS, J. R. VIKAN, F. FOSSOY, A. ANTONOV, A. MOKSNES, E. ROSKAFT, J.A. SHYKOFF, A. P. MOLLER, H. JENSEN, P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE: The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is not locally adapted to its reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus host, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24 (2011) 314-325. M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, K. MORONGOVÁ, M. ČAPEK, V. JELÍNEK: Do nest light conditions affect rejection of parasitic eggs? A test of the light environment hypothesis, Ethology 117 (2011) 539-546. M. HONZA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. I. CHERRY: Blue-green eggshell coloration is not a sexually selected signal of female quality in an open-nesting polygynous passerine, Naturwissenschaften 98 (2011) 493-499. L. POLAČIKOVÁ, M. E. HAUBER, P. PROCHÁZKA, P. CASSEY, M. HONZA, T. GRIM: A sum of its individual parts? Relative contributions of different eggshell regions to intraclutch variation in birds, Journal of avian biology 42 (2011) 370-373. M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, L. POLAČIKOVÁ, M. HONZA: Closer clutch inspection—quicker egg ejection: timing of host responses toward parasitic eggs, Behavioral Ecology 22 (2011) 46-51. P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE, H. JENSEN, D. FAINOVÁ, E. BELLINVIA, F. FOSSOY, J. R. VIKAN, J. BRYJA, M. SOLER: Low genetic differentiation among reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus populations across Europe, Journal of avian biology 42 (2011) 103-113. 2010 M. ČAPEK, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Repeated presentations of the Common Cuckoo increase nest defense by the Eurasian Reed Warbler but do not induce it to make recognition errors, Condor 112 (2010) 763-769. M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, V. ŠICHA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ: Nest defence in a cuckoo host: great reed warblers risk themselves equally for their own and parasitic chicks, Behaviour 147 (2010) 741-756. J. KRALJ, P. PROCHÁZKA, D. FAINOVÁ, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, V. TUTIŠ: Intraspecific variation in the wing shape and genetic differentiation of Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus in Croatia, Acta Ornithologica 45 (2010) 51-58. L. POLAČIKOVÁ, B. G. STOKKE, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA, A. MOKSNES, E. ROSKAFT: The role of blunt egg pole characteristics for recognition of eggs in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos), Behaviour 147 (2010) 465-478. P. PROCHÁZKA, J. REIF, D. HOŘÁK, P. KLVAŇA, R. W. LEE, E. YOHANNES: Using stable isotopes to trace resource acquisition and trophic position in four Afrotropical birds with different diets, Ostrich 81 (2010) 273-275. O. SYCHRA, I. LITERÁK, T. NAJER, M. ČAPEK, P. KOUBEK, P. PROCHÁZKA: 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 (2010) 59-68. O. SYCHRA, E. BARLEV, I. LITERÁK, M. ČAPEK, P. KOUBEK, P. PROCHÁZKA: The chewing lice (Phthiraptera) of red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) in Senegal, with a description of a new species, African Entomology 18 (2010) 17-22. 2009 L. POLAČIKOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. I. CHERRY, M. HONZA: Choosing suitable hosts: common cuckoos Cuculus canorus parasitize great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus of high quality, Evolutionary Ecology 23 (2009) 879-891. M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Adjustment of incubation according to the threat posed: a further signal of enemy recognition in the Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla?, Journal of Ornithology 150 (2009) 569-576. M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Sex-specific defence behaviour against brood parasitism in a host with female-only incubation, Behavioural Processes 81 (2009) 34-38. 2008 P. PROCHÁZKA, E. BELLINVIA, D. FAINOVÁ, P. HÁJKOVÁ, A. ELHALAH, K. ALOMARI: Immigration as a possible rescue of a reduced population of a long-distant migratory bird: Reed warblers in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan, Journal of Arid Environments 72 (2008) 1184-1192. P. PROCHÁZKA, K. A. HOBSON, Z. KARCZA, J. KRALJ: Birds of a feather winter together: migratory connectivity in the Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Journal of Ornithology 149 (2008) 141-150. O. SYCHRA, J.-K. JENSEN, M. DE L. BROOKE, A. TRNKA, P. PROCHÁZKA, I. LITERÁK: The identity of Menacanthus eisenachensis Balát (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae) from the Reed Warbler (Passeriformes: Sylviidae), Acta Parasitologica 53 (2008) 404-406. 2007 M. HONZA, L. POLAČIKOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA: Ultraviolet and green parts of the colour spectrum affect egg rejection in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92 (2007) 269-276. M. HONZA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, E. TKADLEC: Consistency in egg rejection behaviour: responses to repeated brood parasitism in the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), Ethology 113 (2007) 344-351. L. POLAČIKOVÁ, M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, J. TOPERCER, B. G. STOKKE: Colour characteristics of the blunt egg pole: cues for recognition of parasitic eggs as revealed by reflectance spectrophotometry, Animal Behaviour 74 (2007) 419-427. P. PROCHÁZKA, M. POŽGAYOVÁ, M. HONZA: Zajímavý případ mezidruhové krádeže hnízdního materiálu, Sluka 4 (2007) 91-94. B. G. STOKKE, I. HAFSTAD, G. RUDOLFSEN, B. BARGAIN, J. BEIER, D. B. CAMPAS, A. DYRCZ, M. HONZA, B. LEISLER, P. L. PAP, R. PATAPAVIČIUS, P. PROCHÁZKA, K. SCHULZE-HAGEN, R. THOMAS, A. MOKSNES, A. P. MLLER, E. ROSKAFT, M. SOLER: Host density predicts presence of cuckoo parasitism in reed warblers, Oikos 116 (2007) 913-922. V. ŠICHA, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Hopeless solicitation? Host-absent vocalization in the common cuckoo has no effect on feeding rate of reed warblers, Journal of Ethology 25 (2007) 147-152. 2006 M. HONZA, V. ŠICHA, P. PROCHÁZKA, R. LEŽALOVÁ: Host nest defense against a color-dimorphic brood parasite: great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) versus common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus), Journal of Ornithology 147 (2006) 629-637. P. PROCHÁZKA: Analýza stabilních izotopů – alternativní metoda studia migrace ptáků, Sylvia 42 (2006) 3-21. 2005 M. POŽGAYOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Predace snůšky pěnice černohlavé (Sylvia atricapilla) strakapoudem velkým (Dendrocopos major), Sluka 2 (2005) 97-101. 2004 M. HONZA, P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE, A. MOKSNES, E. ROSKAFT, M. ČAPEK JR., V. MRLÍK: Are blackcaps current winners in the evolutionary struggle against the common cuckoo?, Journal of Ethology 22 (2004) 175-180. D. HOŘÁK, P. KLVAŇA, P. PROCHÁZKA: Vliv vysychání mokřadu na druhové složení a početnost chytaných pěvců, Sylvia 40 (2004) 111-118. P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Egg discrimination in the Yellowhammer, Condor 106 (2004) 405-410. 2003 D. HOŘÁK, P. PROCHÁZKA, J. CEPÁK, J. ZÁRYBNICKÝ: Tahové poměry sýkořic vousatých (Panurus biarmicus) na území České republiky a Slovenska, Sylvia 39 (2003) 79-94. P. MÁLKOVÁ, P. PROCHÁZKA: Proceedings of the European Conference Black Grouse - endangered species of Europe. Prague, 8-12 September 2003, Sylvia 39 (2003) 1-128. P. PROCHÁZKA, M. HONZA: Do common whitethroats (Sylvia communis) discriminate against alien eggs?, Journal für Ornithologie 144 (2003) 354-363. 2002 P. PROCHÁZKA, J. REIF: Movements and settling patterns of Sedge Warblers (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - an analysis of ringing recoveries, Ring 24 (2002) 3-13.