OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ornithology is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Robert Charles Leberman, 1937–2020	47
Plasma metabolite indices are robust to extrinsic variation and useful indicators of foraging habitat quality in Lesser Scaup	41
Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology	31
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2023 Ornithology, Volume 140	29
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community	29
David F. DeSante, 1942–2022	29
Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea)	29
Lesser Woodcreepers excavate nest cavities in trees	25
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison	24
Early nest initiation and vegetation density enhance nest survival in Wild Turkeys	21
Weather events influence survival and recruitment of Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit) in the Caribbean	20
An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	20
No difference in reproductive investment or success across urban and rural breeding pairs in an urban-adapted songbird	14
A late Pleistocene nest cave of Gymnogyps californianus (California Condor) in Texas: New radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses	14
Morphometric variation and deteriorating food availability both explain seasonally declining reproductive success of Dicrurus hottentottus (Hair-crested Drongo)	14
Species limits in birds: Australian perspectives on interrelated challenges of allopatry, introgression of mitochondrial DNA, recent speciation, and selection	13
Comparative phylogeographic analysis suggests a shared history among eastern North American boreal forest birds	13
Winds aloft over three water bodies influence spring stopover distributions of migrating birds along the Gulf of Mexico coast	12
Temperature and vegetation complexity structure mixed-species flocks along a gradient of elevation in the tropical Andes	12
Filoplume morphology covaries with their companion primary suggesting that they are feather-specific sensors	12
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	11
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren	11
Threshold models improve estimates of molt parameters in datasets with small sample sizes	11
Mass gain and stopover dynamics among migrating songbirds are linked to seasonal, environmental, and life-history effects	11
2022 Brina C. Kessel Award to Benjamin M. Winger and Teresa M. Pegan	10

Painting the Bunting: Carotenoids and structural elements combine to produce the feather coloration of the male Painted Bunting	10
Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape	10
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes	9
Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity	9
Correction: Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	8
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population	8
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide	8
Reproductive roles as likely drivers of sexual dimorphism in New Zealand’s endangered mountain parrot, the Kea	8
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 clutches	8
Prey selection by Chordeiles minor (Common Nighthawk) does not reflect differences in prey availability between breeding and nonbreeding grounds	8
Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird, Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)	7
Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets	7
2021 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Sara Kaiser	7
Plumage polymorphism in raptors	7
Haemosporidian prevalence and community composition vary little across a chickadee hybrid zone	7
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds	6
Beaver activity and red squirrel presence predict bird assemblages in boreal Canada	6
Nest-site selection and nest predation in a tropical passerine in relation to food, friends, and foes	6
Spring migration strategies of Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) necessitate individual time-energy trade-offs despite wintering origins or migratory destinations	6
A neuroendocrine perspective on the origin and evolution of cooperative breeding	6
Singing on the nest is a widespread behavior in incubating Northern Mockingbirds and increases probability of nest predation	6
Vagrancy in Birds	6
Unmasking hidden genetic, vocal, and size variation in the Masked Flowerpiercer along the Andes supports two species separated by Northern Peruvian Low	6
Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis	5
Postnatal dispersal and drivers of successful recruitment in resident Poecile gambeli (Mountain Chickadee)	5
Body size is associated with yearling breeding and extra-pair mating in the Island Scrub-Jay	5
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 moonwatching	5
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West	5
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)	5
Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 7th edition	5
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene	4
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	4
Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds	4
Genetic data and niche differences suggest that disjunct populations ofDiglossa brunneiventrisare not sister lineages	4
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	4
Modeling phenological reaction norms over an elevational gradient reveals contrasting strategies of Dusky Flycatchers and Mountain Chickadees in response to early-season temperatures	4
Performance of a points-based scoring system for assessing species limits in birds	4
Satellite tracking of American Woodcock reveals a gradient of migration strategies	4
When to depart from a stopover site? Time since arrival matters more than current weather conditions	4
The Sensory Ecology of Birds	4
DNA metabarcoding reveals broad woodpecker diets in fire-maintained forests	4
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow	4
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–2023	4
James Denis Summers-Smith, 1920–2020	4
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 VanderWerf	4
2024 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez	4