:watermark(leibniz-lib.de/typo3temp/assets/images/watermark-copyright/6bd10a3efc2772d5009424edf4284012.png,3,10,0)/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Bilder/LIB/Sammlungen/Feder.JPG%3F1730454658)
Our task
The Ornithology Section contributes to all areas of the LIB's research programme with a broad range of topics on the ecology and evolution of birds. The department collects dead finds from the surrounding area, takes tissue samples and thus participates in environmental monitoring and in particular in recording the genetic variability of the native bird world. The collection-related research work is dedicated to compiling an up-to-date type catalogue and reconstructing the collecting activities of specific collectors.
Related collections
:watermark(leibniz-lib.de/typo3temp/assets/images/watermark-copyright/6bd10a3efc2772d5009424edf4284012.png,3,10,0)/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Bilder/LIB/Sammlungen/Feder.JPG%3F1730454658)
Contact person (provisional)
/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Bilder/LIB/Ueber_das_LIB/Mitarbeitende/Hamburg/Herberstein__Mariella__c_Tjorben_Meier_Portraits.JPG%3F1736148928)
- Head of Centre for Taxonomy & Morphology
- Deputy Director General LIB at the Hamburg location
Phone: +49 40 238317 630
E-Mail: m.herberstein@leibniz-lib.de
Projects
There are currently no projects available
Publications
| of
2025/08
Passive acoustic monitoring of urban bird activity in Hamburg, Germany.
15TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION Bangor, Wales, 18-22 August 20252025/04
Extinct but not forgotten: how museum collections help study the evolution of Hawaiian honeycreepers
2024/08
Effective learning and testing of bird identification skills
Journal of Biological Education
2023/08
Using machine learning for automatic detection of three conservation priority bird species in Okinawa.
15TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION in Lund, Sweden, on 21–25 August 20232023/08
Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848–1886) in East Africa
Zootaxa, 1, 5334
2016/10
Song in two cryptic species: comparative analysis of Large-billed Reed Warblers Acrocephalus orinus and Blyth’s Reed Warblers Acrocephalus dumetorum
Bird Study, 4, 63
2016/05
Syntax of complex bird song in the large-billed reed warbler (Acrocephalus orinus)
Bioacoustics, 2, 25
2016/02
Nachruf auf Heinrich Hoerschelmann
Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, 49
2013/09
Nesting of the Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus: a preliminary report
Forktail, 29
2025
2024
2023
2016
2013
Employees
/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Bilder/LIB/Ueber_das_LIB/Mitarbeitende/Hamburg/Bracker__Cordula__c_Fatih_Kurceren.jpg%3F1736151911)
/leibniz-lib.de/_assets/7abd6609c3f3f81d637bf3fde8bba50e/Standard/Images/specialized-image-default.svg%3F1723800834)
/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Bilder/LIB/Ueber_das_LIB/Mitarbeitende/Hamburg/L_herpiniere-Kiara_01--LIB_-Pour.jpg%3F1772022358)
Dr. Kiara L´Herpiniere
ztm Ornithology Hamburg ScientistPhone: +49 40 238317 644
E-mail: k.lherpiniere@leibniz-lib.de