Project collaborators · Tomasz Bujlow Consulting

Piotr Piliczewski, Ph.D.

Environmental biologist, ornithologist and behavioral ecologist. His personal experience spans field research, environmental assessments, academic teaching and nature education.

Piotr Piliczewski holding a bird
100+nature inventories and assessments
500+hours of nature education
200+hours of university classes

Core expertise

  • Environmental inventories and impact assessment
  • Ornithology and bird banding
  • Wildlife field surveys
  • Behavioral and population ecology
  • Protected species and vertebrate identification
  • Science communication and field education
  • University laboratory and field teaching
  • Research design and ecological data collection

Professional experience

2011–present · Field biologist

More than 100 ecological inventories and environmental assessments; field observations, habitat assessments, identification of protected species and specialist input to environmental documentation.

2010–present · Nature educator

More than 500 hours of school sessions, public talks, ornithological and herpetological excursions, and bird-banding demonstrations.

2011–2015 · Academic instructor

More than 200 hours of laboratory and field classes in vertebrate zoology, behavioral ecology, species protection and identification.

Bird banding · Polish Academy of Sciences

Collaborator of the Ornithological Station of the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences; authorized to band all bird species in Poland.

Education and qualifications

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, University of Szczecin (2020). Dissertation on the responses of urban European Blackbirds to predators threatening their broods.

M.Sc. in Biology, specialization in environmental biology, University of Gdańsk (2007).

Research interests and projects

  • Ethology, behavioral and population ecology, ornithology, and the effect of artificial selection on animal behavior.
  • Research on how location and weather affect feeding-site use by tits (Paridae).
  • Research on wintering-site selection and use by gulls (Laridae) in urban environments.

Publications and conference papers

  1. Piliczewski, P., Jankowiak, Ł., & Wysocki, D. (2018). Age-dependent changes in biometrics indicate senescence in the European Blackbird Turdus merula. Bird Study 65(2), 219–224.

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  2. Nowacki, P., Piliczewski, P., Rek, T., Kiriaka, B., & Wysocki, D. (2016). Secondary sex ratio of nestlings of the blackbird (Turdus merula). Acta Biologica 23, 69–73.

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  3. Piliczewski, P., Zyskowski, D., & Szurlej, M. (2016). Swift ringing — is it still necessary? Conference paper.

  4. Piliczewski, P., Zyskowski, D., & Szurlej, M. (2015). Dlaczego warto obrączkować jerzyka (Apus apus)? Materiał konferencyjny.

  5. Zyskowski, D., Piliczewski, P., Nowacki, P., & Wojcieszak, H. (2013). Social calls of Noctules (Nyctalus noctula) roosting in a tree hole. Conference paper.

Professional associations

  • West Pomeranian Naturalists’ Society
  • Polish Society for Nature Protection ‘Salamandra’
  • Academic Chiropterological Circle, University of Gdańsk

This page presents Piotr Piliczewski’s personal qualifications and previous work. It does not imply that the projects or publications were completed for Tomasz Bujlow Consulting.

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