OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide	51
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	36
Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity	34
Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis	25
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population	22
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison	22
It is good to be average: Ecological correlates of breeding phenology in an Arctic seabird, Alle alle (Dovekie)	15
The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	15
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–2023	15
How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird	14
Modeling phenological reaction norms over an elevational gradient reveals contrasting strategies of Dusky Flycatchers and Mountain Chickadees in response to early-season temperatures	13
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)	13
2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf	12
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow	12
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	12
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene	12
Beak deformities in Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk) signal possible emergence of avian keratin disorder among raptors	11
DNA metabarcoding reveals broadly overlapping diets in three sympatric North American hummingbirds	11
Genotype predicts quantitative song variety in a chickadee hybrid zone despite limited sampling	10
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	10
Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	9
Professional ethics survey identifies strengths and areas for improvement in the American Ornithological Society	9
Experimentally reduced feather microbial loads improve reproductive performance in captive Zebra Finches	9
Flight paths: how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration	8
Endogenous biomarkers reveal diet partitioning among three sympatric species of swallows	8

Vulnerable Neotropical migratory songbird demonstrates flexibility in space use in response to rainfall change	8
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry	8
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2024 Ornithology, Volume 141	7
2024 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to Jordan Karubian	7
Keith A. Hobson, 1954–2024	7
Barn Swallows in East Asia show strong tolerance against nest mites	7
Leonard Alan Freed, 1947–2021	6
Sex, body size, and winter weather explain migration strategies in a partial migrant population of American Kestrels	6
When predators get more than they bargained for: Naïve attacks on snakes by hawks, falcons, and owls	6
Walter J. Bock, 1933–2022	6
Use of visual display in dark, cluttered environments	6
Extended molt phenology models improve inferences about molt duration and timing	6
Corrigendum to: Differences in the use of surface water resources by desert birds are revealed using isotopic tracers	6
Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs: Forays in Postmodern Paleontology	6
Local food availability and nonbreeding carry-over effects affect breeding propensity and success of a tundra-nesting predator, the Long-tailed Jaeger	6
Relative forelimb–hindlimb investment is associated with flight style, foraging strategy, and nestling period, but not nest type	6
Physiological condition reflects polymorphism at the toll-like receptors in a colonial waterbird	6
Evidence of differing staging strategies between adult and juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers highlights the importance of small staging sites in Atlantic Canada	6
Extensive variation in feather ornaments of Whiskered Auklets in the Aleutian Islands reflects age, sex, condition, and geography	6
Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds	5
Machine learning reveals that climate, geography, and cultural drift all predict bird song variation in coastal Zonotrichia leucophrys	5
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community	5
Resource allocation underlies parental decision-making during incubation in the Manx Shearwater	5
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes	5
Mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellites reveal population genetic structure of the range-restricted hummingbirdPhaeoptila sordidain the Balsas Basin	5
Migratory routing and departure decisions of Porzana carolina (Sora): New insights from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System	5
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren	5
Macroevolution of body extremities reveals an integrated phenotypic response of coloration and morphology to temperature in a large clade of Neotropical passerines (Furnariida)	4
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)	4
Irruptive fall migrations are linked to elevated breeding abundance but are not associated with body condition or stopover duration in Northern Saw-whet Owls	4
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	4
Extensions and limitations of MacArthur (1958): A review of ecological and evolutionary approaches to competition and diet in the New World wood warblers (Parulidae)	4
Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes	4
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches	4
Sulfur isotopic discrimination factors differ among avian tissues and diets: Insights from a case study in Gentoo Penguins	4
Geographically consistent hybridization dynamics between the Black-crested and Tufted titmouse with evidence of hybrid zone expansion	4
100 years ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	3
Richard W. (Dick) Coles, 1940–2022	3
Corrigendum to: Cryptic speciation in the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)	3
No evidence that endohelminth parasites cause selection against hybrid orioles across the Baltimore–Bullock’s Oriole hybrid zone	3
The adaptive significance of off-lek sociality in birds: A synthetic review, with evidence for the reproductive benefits hypothesis in Long-wattled Umbrellabirds	3
Similar parasite communities but dissimilar infection patterns in two closely related chickadee species	3
Genome-wide data reveal paraphyly in the sand plover complex (Charadrius mongolus/leschenaultii)	3
Innovative microphone transmitter reveals differences in acoustic structure between broadcast and whisper songs of Myadestes obscurus (ʻŌmaʻo)	3
Richard L. Zusi, 1930–2024	3
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2022 Ornithology, Volume 139	3
Genomic variation in the Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) suggests divergence in a disjunct Atlantic Coastal Plain population (S. v. waynei)	3
Sixty-fourth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	3
A brief history of English bird names and the American Ornithologists’ Union (now American Ornithological Society)	3
Did complex song and dance coevolve with brain size in the birds-of-paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae)?	3

Decline in capture rates of birds in the High Andes of Ecuador suggest broad scale anthropogenic impacts to protected areas	3
Considerations for fitting occupancy models to data from eBird and similar volunteer-collected data	3
Wood hardness drives nest-site selection in woodpeckers of the humid Chaco	3
Correction to: An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	3
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness	3
2021 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Marty L. Leonard and Kathy Martin	3
Lesser Woodcreepers excavate nest cavities in trees	2
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds	2
Contact calls of island Brown-throated Parakeets exhibit both character and variance shifts compared to calls of their mainland relatives	2
Plumage polymorphism in raptors	2
Blue-footed Boobies: Sibling Conflict and Sexual Infidelity on a Tropical Island	2
Beaver activity and red squirrel presence predict bird assemblages in boreal Canada	2
Asymmetric song recognition does not influence gene flow in an emergent songbird hybrid zone	2
Exceptional variation in the appearance of Common Murre eggs reveals their potential as identity signals	2
Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird, Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)	2
Gradual transitions in genetics and songs between coastal and inland populations of Setophaga townsendi	2
Birds at Rest: The Behavior and Ecology of Avian Sleep	2
Biparentally incubating Aegithalos concinnus (Black-throated Tit) provide a more stable nest thermal environment than uniparentally incubating A. glaucogularis (Silver-throated Tit)	2
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2021 Ornithology, Volume 138	2
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds	2
Haemosporidian infection prevalence varies temporally and spatially and Leucocytozoon infections are male biased in Song Sparrows	2
Corrigendum to: Phylogeny based on ultra-conserved elements clarifies the evolution of rails and allies (Ralloidea) and is the basis for a revised classification	2
Climate change outpaces adaptive potential via hybridization in nesting female Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows	2
David F. DeSante, 1942–2022	2
Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi Flyway	2
Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology	2
Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	2
Correction to: The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	2
Mixed-species flocking is associated with low arthropod detectability and increased foraging efficiency by Yungas forest birds in Argentina	2
Context-specific behavior serves as a mechanism of interspecific cohesion in mixed-species flocks	2
Feather growth rate and hormone deposition vary with elevation but not reproductive costs in resident Mountain Chickadees	1
Mass gain and stopover dynamics among migrating songbirds are linked to seasonal, environmental, and life-history effects	1
Studying individual-level interactions can transform our understanding of avian mixed-species flocks	1
The Pacific as the world’s greatest theater of bird migration: Extreme flights spark questions about physiological capabilities, behavior, and the evolution of migratory pathways	1
When do tropical birds breed? The case of Colombian species assemblages	1
Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds	1
Melospiza melodia (Song Sparrow) bill size is primarily shaped by thermoregulation on the California Channel Islands	1
High variability of migration strategies in a reestablished Cygnus buccinator (Trumpeter Swan) population	1
Incubation period length varies with temperature, female age, and clutch size in Protonotaria citrea (Prothonotary Warbler)	1
2021 AOS Kessel Fellowship for Ornithological Research to Michelle Roper	1
Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets	1
Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)	1
Sociality and morphology differentiate niches of 13 sympatric Amazonian woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae)	1
An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	1
The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat	1
2021 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to Francesca J. Cuthbert and the Bird Ecology Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Cuba	1
2022 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Roxana Torres and Amanda Rodewald	1
Neighbors matter: Vocal variation in Gentoo Penguins depends on the species composition of their colony	1
Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches	1
Temporal stability in songs across the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) may be due to learning fidelity and transmission biases	1
Correction: Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	1
Rapid recovery by fat- and muscle-depleted Blackpoll Warblers following trans-oceanic migration is driven by time-minimization	1
2023 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart	1
Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	1
Vagrancy in Birds	1
Spring migration strategies of Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) necessitate individual time-energy trade-offs despite wintering origins or migratory destinations	1
Essential Ornithology	1
Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape	1
2024 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez	1
Richard R. Graber, 1925–1998; Jean W. Graber, 1925–2015	1
Unmasking hidden genetic, vocal, and size variation in the Masked Flowerpiercer along the Andes supports two species separated by Northern Peruvian Low	1
Winter range shifts and their associations with species traits are heterogeneous in eastern North American birds	1
2021 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Peter Arcese and Bruce Beehler	1
Courtship behavior of a secretive forest tinamou, Tinamus major (Great Tinamou)	1
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2023 Ornithology, Volume 140	1
Robert G. Goelet, 1923–2019	1
Dale Allen Zimmerman, 1928–2021	1
Whether Darwin’s mystery of mysteries is actually mysterious depends on the species concept: A bird’s eye review	1
Female and male plumage brightness is positively correlated among populations of the dichromatic Variable Seedeater	1
Cloacal microbial diversity is associated with competitive phenotypes in socially polyandrous jacanas	1
Morphometric variation and deteriorating food availability both explain seasonally declining reproductive success of Dicrurus hottentottus (Hair-crested Drongo)	1
High within-clutch repeatability of eggshell phenotype in Barn Swallows despite less maculated last-laid eggs	1
Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 7th edition	1
Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)	1