Ornithology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ornithology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Robert Charles Leberman, 1937–202047
Plasma metabolite indices are robust to extrinsic variation and useful indicators of foraging habitat quality in Lesser Scaup41
Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology31
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2023 Ornithology, Volume 14029
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community29
David F. DeSante, 1942–202229
Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea)29
Lesser Woodcreepers excavate nest cavities in trees25
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison24
Early nest initiation and vegetation density enhance nest survival in Wild Turkeys21
An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds20
Weather events influence survival and recruitment of Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit) in the Caribbean20
A late Pleistocene nest cave of Gymnogyps californianus (California Condor) in Texas: New radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses14
Morphometric variation and deteriorating food availability both explain seasonally declining reproductive success of Dicrurus hottentottus (Hair-crested Drongo)14
No difference in reproductive investment or success across urban and rural breeding pairs in an urban-adapted songbird14
Comparative phylogeographic analysis suggests a shared history among eastern North American boreal forest birds13
Species limits in birds: Australian perspectives on interrelated challenges of allopatry, introgression of mitochondrial DNA, recent speciation, and selection13
Temperature and vegetation complexity structure mixed-species flocks along a gradient of elevation in the tropical Andes12
Filoplume morphology covaries with their companion primary suggesting that they are feather-specific sensors12
Winds aloft over three water bodies influence spring stopover distributions of migrating birds along the Gulf of Mexico coast12
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren11
Threshold models improve estimates of molt parameters in datasets with small sample sizes11
Mass gain and stopover dynamics among migrating songbirds are linked to seasonal, environmental, and life-history effects11
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union11
2022 Brina C. Kessel Award to Benjamin M. Winger and Teresa M. Pegan10
Painting the Bunting: Carotenoids and structural elements combine to produce the feather coloration of the male Painted Bunting10
Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape10
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes9
Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity9
Correction: Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains8
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population8
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide8
Reproductive roles as likely drivers of sexual dimorphism in New Zealand’s endangered mountain parrot, the Kea8
Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)8
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches8
Prey selection by Chordeiles minor (Common Nighthawk) does not reflect differences in prey availability between breeding and nonbreeding grounds8
Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets7
2021 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Sara Kaiser7
Plumage polymorphism in raptors7
Haemosporidian prevalence and community composition vary little across a chickadee hybrid zone7
Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird, Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)7
Spring migration strategies of Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) necessitate individual time-energy trade-offs despite wintering origins or migratory destinations6
A neuroendocrine perspective on the origin and evolution of cooperative breeding6
Singing on the nest is a widespread behavior in incubating Northern Mockingbirds and increases probability of nest predation6
Vagrancy in Birds6
Unmasking hidden genetic, vocal, and size variation in the Masked Flowerpiercer along the Andes supports two species separated by Northern Peruvian Low6
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds6
Beaver activity and red squirrel presence predict bird assemblages in boreal Canada6
Nest-site selection and nest predation in a tropical passerine in relation to food, friends, and foes6
Body size is associated with yearling breeding and extra-pair mating in the Island Scrub-Jay5
Macroevolution of body extremities reveals an integrated phenotypic response of coloration and morphology to temperature in a large clade of Neotropical passerines (Furnariida)5
Barnacles dominate the winter diet of Calidris maritima (Purple Sandpiper) in Maine: A bona fide dietary shift or molecular techniques revealing an unknown diet composition?5
Social behavior among nocturnally migrating birds revealed by automated moonwatching5
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West5
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)5
Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 7th edition5
Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis5
Postnatal dispersal and drivers of successful recruitment in resident Poecile gambeli (Mountain Chickadee)5
Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds4
Genetic data and niche differences suggest that disjunct populations ofDiglossa brunneiventrisare not sister lineages4
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union4
Modeling phenological reaction norms over an elevational gradient reveals contrasting strategies of Dusky Flycatchers and Mountain Chickadees in response to early-season temperatures4
Performance of a points-based scoring system for assessing species limits in birds4
Satellite tracking of American Woodcock reveals a gradient of migration strategies4
When to depart from a stopover site? Time since arrival matters more than current weather conditions4
The Sensory Ecology of Birds4
DNA metabarcoding reveals broad woodpecker diets in fire-maintained forests4
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow4
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–20234
James Denis Summers-Smith, 1920–20204
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)4
2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf4
2024 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez4
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene4
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location4
Sexual dichromatism may not be a good index of sexual or natural selection in the blue cardinalids (Aves: Passeriformes)3
It is good to be average: Ecological correlates of breeding phenology in an Arctic seabird, Alle alle (Dovekie)3
Genomic and acoustic differences separate Lilian’s Meadowlark (Sturnella magna lilianae) from Eastern (S. magna) and Western (S. neglecta) meadowlarks3
How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird3
DNA metabarcoding reveals broadly overlapping diets in three sympatric North American hummingbirds3
Extensions and limitations of MacArthur (1958): A review of ecological and evolutionary approaches to competition and diet in the New World wood warblers (Parulidae)3
C. Stuart Houston, 1927–20213
2023 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Awards to Lisa Sorenson and Stanley Senner3
Beyond tracking: Advancing animal ecology through the longitudinal sampling of individuals3
The Big Boom Theory: The Common Nighthawk wing-boom display delineates exclusive nesting territories3
The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world3
Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes3
Sulfur isotopic discrimination factors differ among avian tissues and diets: Insights from a case study in Gentoo Penguins3
Evaluating the impacts of metabarcoding primer selection on DNA characterization of diet in an aerial insectivore, the Purple Martin3
The Great Rift Valley is a more pronounced biogeographic barrier than the Blue Nile Valley for six Ethiopian Highland passerines in the eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot3
Correction to: The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world3
DNA metabarcoding reveals dietary divergence among sympatric swallows and flycatchers3
Phylogenetic analyses support flush-pursuit foraging and flocking behaviors as evolutionary drivers of flash plumage signals in North American passerines3
Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)3
Sixty-second Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’sCheck-list of North American Birds3
The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat3
Climate change outpaces adaptive potential via hybridization in nesting female Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows3
Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains2
Correction to: The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness2
Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren2
Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation2
Vulnerable Neotropical migratory songbird demonstrates flexibility in space use in response to rainfall change2
Nestling Savannah Sparrows and Tree Swallows differ in their sensitivity to weather2
Phylogeny based on ultra-conserved elements clarifies the evolution of rails and allies (Ralloidea) and is the basis for a revised classification2
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union2
Community-sourced sightings of atypical birds can be used to understand the evolution of plumage color and pattern2
Corrigendum to: Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) can identify individual females by their fee-bee songs2
Birds of Maine2
Avian taxonomy in turmoil: The 7-point rule is poorly reproducible and may overlook substantial cryptic diversity2
Sociality and morphology differentiate niches of 13 sympatric Amazonian woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae)2
A new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western Bolivia and southern Peru2
The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) genoscape: implications for monitoring, management, and subspecies boundaries2
Irruptive fall migrations are linked to elevated breeding abundance but are not associated with body condition or stopover duration in Northern Saw-whet Owls2
Essential Ornithology2
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles2
Barn Swallows in East Asia show strong tolerance against nest mites2
2022 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Roxana Torres and Amanda Rodewald2
Endogenous biomarkers reveal diet partitioning among three sympatric species of swallows2
The high-energy aerial insectivore lifestyle of swallows does not produce clear thermogenic side effects2
Nest site vegetation structure influences nest predators and nesting success of understory birds in a dry evergreen forest in northeastern Thailand1
Correction to: An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds1
Female and male plumage brightness is positively correlated among populations of the dichromatic Variable Seedeater1
Egg translocation across a local range boundary reduces hatch rates in a trailing-edge population of a migratory songbird, Setophaga caerulescens (Black-throated Blue Warbler)1
Blue-footed Boobies: Sibling Conflict and Sexual Infidelity on a Tropical Island1
Richard L. Zusi, 1930–20241
Exceptional variation in the appearance of Common Murre eggs reveals their potential as identity signals1
2023 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Cristina Yumi Miyaki and Maren Vitousek1
Faster growth and larger size at crèche onset are associated with higher offspring survival in Adélie Penguins1
High within-clutch repeatability of eggshell phenotype in Barn Swallows despite less maculated last-laid eggs1
Ecological drivers of coloniality in Oreotrochilus chimborazo chimborazo (Chimborazo Hillstar), a hummingbird endemic to the High Andes of Ecuador1
Integrative taxonomy and geographic sampling underlie successful species delimitation1
Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi Flyway1
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds1
Hatching failure is greater in altricial bird species with cavity nests and large clutches1
Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches1
A habitat-based approach to determining the effects of drought on aridland bird communities1
The Biology of Molt in Birds1
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2024 Ornithology, Volume 1411
Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles1
Asymmetric song recognition does not influence gene flow in an emergent songbird hybrid zone1
Professional ethics survey identifies strengths and areas for improvement in the American Ornithological Society1
Geographically consistent hybridization dynamics between the Black-crested and Tufted titmouse with evidence of hybrid zone expansion1
Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds1
Genomic variation in the Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) suggests divergence in a disjunct Atlantic Coastal Plain population (S. v. waynei)1
Corrigendum to: Cryptic speciation in the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)1
Morphology, vocalizations, and mitochondrial DNA suggest that the Graceful Prinia is two species1
Keith A. Hobson, 1954–20241
Leonard Alan Freed, 1947–20211
Application of a global age-coding system (“WRP”), based on molts and plumages, for use in demographic and other studies of birds1
Corrigendum to: Phylogeny based on ultra-conserved elements clarifies the evolution of rails and allies (Ralloidea) and is the basis for a revised classification1
Haemosporidian infection prevalence varies temporally and spatially and Leucocytozoon infections are male biased in Song Sparrows1
Richard W. (Dick) Coles, 1940–20221
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry1
Flight paths: how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration1
Experimentally reduced feather microbial loads improve reproductive performance in captive Zebra Finches1
An overview of speciation and species limits in birds1
Underestimated Neotropical diversity: Integrative taxonomy reveals two unrelated look-alike species in a suboscine bird (Pachyramphus albogriseus)1
Mixed-species flocking is associated with low arthropod detectability and increased foraging efficiency by Yungas forest birds in Argentina1
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