Einführung und Vorstellung der Dozenten, Introduction "What is a bird?", Eco-physiology I: thermoregulation; metabolism, Eco-physiology II: nutritional ecology I, Eco-physiology III: nutritional ecology II, Mechanism of habitat selection, Eco-physiology IV: behavioral endocrinology, Migration: Patterns and timing, Migration: Physiology, Migratory Stopover, Migration: Compasses, Migration: The magnetic sense, Migration: Inheritance and Microevolution, Migration: Orientation strategies I, Migration: Orientation strategies II, Population biology I: structure - dynamics, Ecology of reprocution I, Ecology of reprocution II, Life-history strategies I, Life-history strategies II, Life-history strategies III, Vision, Hearing, Function of bird song, Song learning, Habitat acoustics and conservation, Avian brain and cognition, Ecology of reproduction I, Ecology of reproduction II, Klausur, entfällt, Avian brain and cognition