Ornithology

Article	Citations
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison	46
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide	35
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population	24
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow	23
It is good to be average: Ecological correlates of breeding phenology in an Arctic seabird, Alle alle (Dovekie)	19
2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf	17
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene	17
Divergence in mating signals predicts behavioral responses among three closely related species of wrens in the genus Campylorhynchus	16
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–2023	16
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	15
Beak deformities in Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk) signal possible emergence of avian keratin disorder among raptors	14
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2025 Ornithology , Volume 142	13
The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	13
How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird	13
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)	12
Flight paths: how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration	11
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	11
Barn Swallows in East Asia show strong tolerance against nest mites	11
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2024 Ornithology, Volume 141	10
Professional ethics survey identifies strengths and areas for improvement in the American Ornithological Society	10
Vulnerable Neotropical migratory songbird demonstrates flexibility in space use in response to rainfall change	10
Experimentally reduced feather microbial loads improve reproductive performance in captive Zebra Finches	9
Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	9
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry	9
Genotype predicts quantitative song variety in a chickadee hybrid zone despite limited sampling	8

2024 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to Jordan Karubian	8
Relative forelimb–hindlimb investment is associated with flight style, foraging strategy, and nestling period, but not nest type	7
Leonard Alan Freed, 1947–2021	7
Experimental evidence of a consistent commensal relationship between avian hosts and feather mites of differing host specificities	7
Keith A. Hobson, 1954–2024	7
Extended molt phenology models improve inferences about molt duration and timing	6
Local food availability and nonbreeding carry-over effects affect breeding propensity and success of a tundra-nesting predator, the Long-tailed Jaeger	6
Sex interacts with fledge date to influence dispersal probability in Fratercula arctica (Atlantic Puffin)	6
Extensive variation in feather ornaments of Whiskered Auklets in the Aleutian Islands reflects age, sex, condition, and geography	6
Use of visual display in dark, cluttered environments	6
Syntopic diet divergence inferred from metabarcoding in two parulid warblers: Setophaga virens (Black-throated Green Warbler) and	6
Mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellites reveal population genetic structure of the range-restricted hummingbirdPhaeoptila sordidain the Balsas Basin	6
Genetic analysis of Cistothorus palustris (Marsh Wren) across a broad transition zone in southern Saskatchewan reveals deep divergence and little hybridization between two cultural phenotypes	6
Evidence of differing staging strategies between adult and juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers highlights the importance of small staging sites in Atlantic Canada	6
Sex, body size, and winter weather explain migration strategies in a partial migrant population of American Kestrels	6
Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs: Forays in Postmodern Paleontology	6
Machine learning reveals that climate, geography, and cultural drift all predict bird song variation in coastal Zonotrichia leucophrys	5
Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds	5
Richard W. (Dick) Coles, 1940–2022	4
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)	4
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren	4
Walter J. Bock, 1933–2022	4
When predators get more than they bargained for: Naïve attacks on snakes by hawks, falcons, and owls	4
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community	4
Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes	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
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches	4
Resource allocation underlies parental decision-making during incubation in the Manx Shearwater	4
Macroevolution of body extremities reveals an integrated phenotypic response of coloration and morphology to temperature in a large clade of Neotropical passerines (Furnariida)	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
Richard L. Zusi, 1930–2024	4
Sixty-sixth supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	4
Wintering closer to breeding grounds comes at a cost in an Arctic-specialized songbird, Plectrophenax nivalis (Snow Bunting)	4
Migratory routing and departure decisions of Porzana carolina (Sora): New insights from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System	4
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes	4
Sulfur isotopic discrimination factors differ among avian tissues and diets: Insights from a case study in Gentoo Penguins	4
No evidence that endohelminth parasites cause selection against hybrid orioles across the Baltimore–Bullock’s Oriole hybrid zone	3
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2022 Ornithology, Volume 139	3
Correction to: An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	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
100 years ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	3
Geographically consistent hybridization dynamics between the Black-crested and Tufted titmouse with evidence of hybrid zone expansion	3
Genomic variation in the Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) suggests divergence in a disjunct Atlantic Coastal Plain population (S. v. waynei)	3
Decline in capture rates of birds in the High Andes of Ecuador suggests broad-scale anthropogenic impacts to protected areas	3
2025 AOS Florence Merriam Bailey Award to Henry C. Stevens	3
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness	3
Sex- and age-related differences in post-breeding molt phenology are phylogenetically and ecologically widespread in passerines	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

Fledging success peaks later than insect prey biomass in two aerial insectivores: Evaluating potential phenological mismatch and fitness consequences	3
Innovative microphone transmitter reveals differences in acoustic structure between broadcast and whisper songs of Myadestes obscurus (ʻŌmaʻo)	3
Corrigendum to: Cryptic speciation in the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)	3
Wood hardness drives nest-site selection in woodpeckers of the humid Chaco	3
Considerations for fitting occupancy models to data from eBird and similar volunteer-collected data	3
Sixty-fourth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	3
Did complex song and dance coevolve with brain size in the birds-of-paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae)?	3
Sexual dimorphism and sex-biased sampling influence analyses of trait evolution and diversity in a major songbird clade	3
Plumage polymorphism in raptors	2
Gradual transitions in genetics and songs between coastal and inland populations of Setophaga townsendi	2
Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi Flyway	2
Biparentally incubating Aegithalos concinnus (Black-throated Tit) provide a more stable nest thermal environment than uniparentally incubating	2
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds	2
Asymmetric song recognition does not influence gene flow in an emergent songbird hybrid zone	2
Differences in weather conditions associated with the onset of pre-breeding migration of Scolopax rusticola (Eurasian Woodcock) and <	2
Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology	2
Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird, Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)	2
Climate change outpaces adaptive potential via hybridization in nesting female Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows	2
Courtship behavior of a secretive forest tinamou, Tinamus major (Great Tinamou)	2
Haemosporidian infection prevalence varies temporally and spatially and Leucocytozoon infections are male biased in Song Sparrows	2
Beaver activity and red squirrel presence predict bird assemblages in boreal Canada	2
A brief history of English bird names and the American Ornithologists’ Union (now American Ornithological Society)	2
Birds at Rest: The Behavior and Ecology of Avian Sleep by Roger F. Pasquier	2
Evidence of environmental niche conservatism among pairs of allopatric avian lineages in two Neotropical dry forests, the Caatinga and the Chaco	2
Correction to: The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	2
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds	2
Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches	2
Lesser Woodcreepers excavate nest cavities in trees	2
Blue-footed Boobies: Sibling Conflict and Sexual Infidelity on a Tropical Island	2
Ben F. King, 1937–2024	2
David F. DeSante, 1942–2022	2
Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)	1
Year-round carryover effects are driven by migration phenology for Hirundo rustica (Barn Swallow) wintering in West Africa	1
Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets	1
High variability of migration strategies in a reestablished Cygnus buccinator (Trumpeter Swan) population	1
Mass gain and stopover dynamics among migrating songbirds are linked to seasonal, environmental, and life-history effects	1
2023 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart	1
Sociality and morphology differentiate niches of 13 sympatric Amazonian woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae)	1
Spring migration strategies of Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) necessitate individual time-energy trade-offs despite wintering origins or migratory destinations	1
A framework of hypotheses for studying post-breeding ecology and trade-offs in migratory birds	1
Cloacal microbial diversity is associated with competitive phenotypes in socially polyandrous jacanas	1
Incubation period length varies with temperature, female age, and clutch size in Protonotaria citrea (Prothonotary Warbler)	1
An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	1
Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)	1
Temporal stability in songs across the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) may be due to learning fidelity and transmission biases	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
2024 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez	1
2022 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Roxana Torres and Amanda Rodewald	1
DNA metabarcoding reveals rangewide variation in aquatic diet of a riparian avian insectivore, the Prothonotary Warbler	1
Robert William Nero, 1922–2023	1
Unmasking hidden genetic, vocal, and size variation in the Masked Flowerpiercer along the Andes supports two species separated by Northern Peruvian Low	1
Genetic analysis provides insight into the mating system of Meleagris gallopavo (Wild Turkey) and reveals frequent extra-pair paternity	1
Melospiza melodia (Song Sparrow) bill size is primarily shaped by thermoregulation on the California Channel Islands	1
Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape	1
Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	1
Correction: Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	1
Genomic data reveal mixed support for the current subspecies designations in the Megascops asio (Eastern Screech-Owl)	1
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2023 Ornithology, Volume 140	1
Covariation between morphological traits and ant-following behavior in Neotropical birds	1
Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia	1
High within-clutch repeatability of eggshell phenotype in Barn Swallows despite less maculated last-laid eggs	1
Neighbors matter: Vocal variation in Gentoo Penguins depends on the species composition of their colony	1
Feather growth rate and hormone deposition vary with elevation but not reproductive costs in resident Mountain Chickadees	1
Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 7th edition	1
Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds	1
2024 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Rebecca T. Kimball	1
Vagrancy in Birds	1
A rallid ballad: Communal signaling is correlated with year-round territoriality in the most duet-rich family of birds (Gruiformes: Rallidae)	1
Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)	1
Dale Allen Zimmerman, 1928–2021	1
Robert G. Goelet, 1923–2019	1
Morphometric variation and deteriorating food availability both explain seasonally declining reproductive success of Dicrurus hottentottus (Hair-crested Drongo)	1
Breeding site departure and post-departure movement strategy in Vireo olivaceus (Red-eyed Vireo)	1
When do tropical birds breed? The case of Colombian species assemblages	1
Whether Darwin’s mystery of mysteries is actually mysterious depends on the species concept: A bird’s eye review	1
Studying individual-level interactions can transform our understanding of avian mixed-species flocks	1
Female and male plumage brightness is positively correlated among populations of the dichromatic Variable Seedeater	1
Apparent annual survival of adult Vermivora chrysoptera (Golden-winged Warbler) does not differ by sex or region	1
Winter range shifts and their associations with species traits are heterogeneous in eastern North American birds	1
Mixed-species flocking is associated with low arthropod detectability and increased foraging efficiency by Yungas forest birds in Argentina	1

The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat

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