OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ornithological Applications is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Differential seasonal avoidance of anthropogenic features and woody vegetation by Lesser Prairie-Chickens	34
Birds of Rhode Island: Seasonal Distribution and Ecological History	34
Brood parasitism of Hooded Warblers by Brown-headed Cowbirds: Severe impact on individual nests but modest consequences for seasonal fecundity and conservation	26
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds	17
Songbird annual productivity declines with increasing soil lead contamination around nests	16
Similar post-fledging behavior observed in wild and reintroduced juvenile Bonelli’s Eagle in two Mediterranean islands	15
Fine-scale forest structure, not management regime, drives occupancy of a declining songbird, the Olive-sided Flycatcher, in the core of its range	14
Breeding Sternula antillarum (Least Terns) disturbance distances and duration of escape behaviors: Pedestrians necessitate larger conservation buffers than do passing vehicles	13
2021 AOS Early Professional Awards to Benjamin Van Doren, Ana Gonzalez, Sahas Barve, and Luis Sandoval	13
2024 AOS Early Professional Awards to Sheela P. Turbek, Jessie L. Williamson, and Gavin M. Jones	13
Thomas E. Lovejoy III, 1941–2021	11
Empirical and simulation data reveal a lack of avoidance of wind turbines by Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture)	9
Florida Scrub-Jay: Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird	9
Vegetation characteristics and precipitation jointly influence grassland bird abundance beyond the effects of grazing management	8
Beach recreationists perceive a lack of knowledge about shorebirds’ needs as a constraint to walking around shorebird flocks	8
A Wing and A Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds	8
Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California	7
High rates of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in California Barred Owls are associated with the wildland–urban interface	7
The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, ecology, and conservation	7
Corrigendum to: Predation, parasitism, and drought counteract the benefits of patch-burn grazing for the reproductive success of grassland songbirds	7
Metapopulation connectivity retains genetic diversity following a historical bottleneck in a federally endangered seabird	7
Offspring of translocated individuals drive the successful reintroduction of Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse in Nevada, USA	7
Climate change is predicted to reduce sympatry among North American wood-warblers	6
Protected areas safeguard landbird populations in central coastal California: Evidence from long-term population trends	6
Wildfire smoke affects detection of birds in Washington State	6

2021 AOS Harry R. Painton Award to Walter Piper, Jason Grear, Brian Hoover, Elaina Lomery, and Linda Grenzer	6
Bird–building collisions increase with weather conditions that favor nocturnal migration and with inclement and changing weather	6
Fully accounting for nest age reduces bias when quantifying nest survival	6
Alaska’s climate sensitive Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta supports seven million Arctic-breeding shorebirds, including the majority of six North American populations	6
Prevalence and diversity of malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium) in the imperiled Saltmarsh Sparrow are greater at northern sites	6
Turkey Vulture survival is reduced in areas of greater road density	6
Causes of nest failure vary with water depth, nesting substrate, and adverse weather in the endangered wetland-breeding Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus (Everglade Snail Kite)	6
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) has been replacing Anas rubripes (American Black Duck) in human-altered landscapes in Ontario, 1996 to 2019	5
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2023 Ornithological Applications, volume 125	5
A near-range plant invasion homogenizes riparian vegetation but leads to more productive bird communities	5
Preferred nesting habitat of the slow-breeding Superb Lyrebird is rare and was disproportionately impacted by Australia’s “Black Summer” megafires (2019–2020) within a World Heritage Area	5
Reintroduced Oriental Stork survival differed by mitochondrial DNA haplotype	5
Natal forest fragment size does not predict fledgling, pre-migration or apparent annual survival in Wood Thrushes	5
Low Kirtland’s Warbler fledgling survival in Wisconsin plantations relative to Michigan plantations	5
The spatiotemporal properties of artificial feeding schemes influence the post-fledging movement of Egyptian Vultures	5
Dispersal patterns of the endangered Crested Ibis suggest high breeding densities drive natal dispersal	5
The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats	5
Correction to: Meta-replication reveals nonstationarity in multi-scale habitat selection of Mexican Spotted Owl	5
Wetter and more forested nonbreeding areas result in later departures but a faster spring migration in Vermivora chrysoptera (Golden-winged Warbler)	5
Future sea-level rise in northwest Mexico is projected to decrease the distribution and habitat quality of the endangered Calidris canutus roselaari (Red Knot)	4
Shrub cover and height determine the density of Vireo atricapilla (Black-capped Vireo) at two national wildlife refuges	4
Bird predation and landscape context shape arthropod communities on broccoli	4
Citizen science generates reliable migration chronologies to supplement professional surveys for waterfowl habitat management	4
Rapid population decline in McKay’s Bunting, an Alaskan endemic, highlights the species’ current status relative to international standards for vulnerable species	4
Secondary Amazon rainforest partially recovers tree cavities suitable for nesting birds in 18–34 years	4
Despite regional variation, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus (Pinyon Jay) densities generally increase with local pinyon–juniper cover and heterogeneous ground cover	4
Under cover of darkness: Refuge from artificial light at night may mitigate risks to stranded seabirds	4
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	4
Genetic structure in the nonbreeding range ofrufaRed Knots suggests distinct Arctic breeding populations	4
N-mixture models estimate abundance reliably: A field test on Marsh Tit using time-for-space substitution	4
Avian botulism is a primary, year-round threat to adult survival in the endangered Hawaiian Duck on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA	4
Controlling trapping, overgrazing and invasive vegetation is key to saving Java’s last population of the Black-winged Myna	4
Weak genetic structure, shared nonbreeding areas, and extensive movement in a declining waterbird	3
Bird versus Bulldozer: A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot	3
High inter-population connectivity and occasional gene flow between subspecies improves recovery potential for the endangered Least Bell’s Vireo	3
Rapid growth of the Swainson’s Hawk population in California since 2005	3
Distribution models using semi-structured community science data outperform unstructured-data models for a data-poor species, the Plain Tyrannulet	3
Mismatch between strong nest-site selection and low survival of nests and broods for Scolopax minor (American Woodcock) and its implications for conservation	3
Loon Lessons: Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver	3
Caught out in the cold: Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) survival decreased during an extreme climatic event	3
Insectivore diet and abundance determine the contribution of bird species to services and disservices in an agricultural ecosystem	3
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2022 Ornithological Applications, volume 124	3
Is green the new black? Black-backed Woodpecker vital rates do not differ between unburned and burned forests within a pyrodiverse landscape	3
Nonbreeding distributions of four declining Nearctic–Neotropical migrants are predicted to contract under future climate and socioeconomic scenarios	3
Light-level geolocators and species distribution modeling reveal that the Vulnerable Sporophila cinnamomea (Chestnut Seedeater) migrates through the Paraná-Paraguay system to Central Brazil	3