OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ornithological Applications 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Are declines in insects and insectivorous birds related?	37
Beyond refueling: Investigating the diversity of functions of migratory stopover events	28
Integrating vulture social behavior into conservation practice	25
Combined effect of anthropogenic noise and artificial night lighting negatively affect Western Bluebird chick development	23
Habitat ecology of Nearctic–Neotropical migratory landbirds on the nonbreeding grounds	16
Annual adult survival drives trends in Arctic-breeding shorebirds but knowledge gaps in other vital rates remain	16
Drones and deep learning produce accurate and efficient monitoring of large-scale seabird colonies	16
Tree Swallow selection for wetlands in agricultural landscapes predicted by central-place foraging theory	16
Lessons learned from comparing spatially explicit models and the Partners in Flight approach to estimate population sizes of boreal birds in Alberta, Canada	15
Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future	15
Urbanization is associated with increased breeding rate, but decreased breeding success, in an urban population of near-threatened African Crowned Eagles	12
Bridging the research-implementation gap in avian conservation with translational ecology	12
Accelerating declines of North America’s shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action	12
Unprecedented heat mortality of Magellanic Penguins	12
Greater Sage-Grouse nest bowls buffer microclimate in a post-megafire landscape although effects on nest survival are marginal	11
Advancing scientific knowledge and conservation of birds through inclusion of conservation social sciences in the American Ornithological Society	11
Plunging floater survival causes cryptic population decline in the Common Loon	11
A large-scale experiment demonstrates that line marking reduces power line collision mortality for large terrestrial birds, but not bustards, in the Karoo, South Africa	11
Experimental playback of natural gas compressor noise reduces incubation time and hatching success in two secondary cavity-nesting bird species	10
Piping Plover population increase after Hurricane Sandy mediated by immigration and reproductive output	10
Integrating tracking and resight data enables unbiased inferences about migratory connectivity and winter range survival from archival tags	10
Correcting parentage relationships in the endangered California Condor: Improving mean kinship estimates for conservation management	9
North American Breeding Bird Survey status and trend estimates to inform a wide range of conservation needs, using a flexible Bayesian hierarchical generalized additive model	9
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	8
Implanted satellite transmitters affect sea duck movement patterns at short and long timescales	8

Dunlin subspecies exhibit regional segregation and high site fidelity along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway	8
Post-fledging Golden-winged Warblers require forests with multiple stand developmental stages	8
Wildfire smoke affects detection of birds in Washington State	7
Breeding success of Eleonora’s Falcon in Cyprus revisited using survey techniques for cliff-nesting species	7
Lack of standardization in the use of road counts for surveying raptors	7
Metabarcoding of stomach contents and fecal samples provide similar insights about Seaside Sparrow diet	7
Protected by dragons: Density surface modeling confirms large population of the critically endangered Yellow-crested Cockatoo on Komodo Island	7
Vegetation characteristics and precipitation jointly influence grassland bird abundance beyond the effects of grazing management	7
Eastern-breeding Lesser Yellowlegs are more likely than western-breeding birds to visit areas with high shorebird hunting during southward migration	7
Fully accounting for nest age reduces bias when quantifying nest survival	7
Large trees and forest heterogeneity facilitate prey capture by California Spotted Owls	7
The Colorado River Delta and California’s Central Valley are critical regions for many migrating North American landbirds	6
Genetic data disagree with described subspecies ranges for Seaside Sparrows on the Atlantic coast	6
Declining wintering shorebird populations at a temperate estuary in California: A 30-year perspective	6
White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain	6
Conspecific attraction for conservation and management of terrestrial breeding birds: Current knowledge and future research directions	6
Diet composition of reintroduced Red-and-Green Macaws reflects gradual adaptation to life in the wild	6
Breeding success in Southern Australian Little Penguins is negatively correlated with high wind speeds and sea surface temperatures	6
Combination of targeted monitoring and Breeding Bird Survey data improves population trend estimation and species distribution modeling for the Common Nighthawk	6
Historic and contemporary use of catfish aquaculture by piscivorous birds in the Mississippi Delta	6
Community characteristics of forest understory birds along an elevational gradient in the Horn of Africa: A multi-year baseline	5
Urban rooftop-nesting Common Nighthawk chicks tolerate high temperatures by hyperthermia with relatively low rates of evaporative water loss	5
Range-wide population genetic analysis of Seaside Sparrows (Ammospiza maritima) supports at least five distinct population segments that do not align with current subspecies descriptions	5
Barn Owls select uncultivated habitats for hunting in a winegrape growing region of California	5
Cross-seasonal effects in the American Woodcock: Conditions prior to fall migration relate to migration strategy and implications for conservation	5
High rates of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in California Barred Owls are associated with the wildland–urban interface	5
How to include and recognize the work of ornithologists based in the Neotropics: Fourteen actions forOrnithological Applications,Ornithology, and other global-scope journals	5
Sea ice and local weather affect reproductive phenology of a polar seabird with breeding consequences	5
Climate variation drives dynamics and productivity of a subalpine breeding bird community	5
Disturbed Amazonian forests support diminished breeding bird communities	5
Mixed evidence for effects of stewardship on Least Tern reproductive success in coastal Mississippi	5
Protected areas safeguard landbird populations in central coastal California: Evidence from long-term population trends	5
Do metal mines and their runoff affect plumage color? Streak-backed Orioles in Mexico show unexpected patterns	5
Synthesis of Red-cockaded Woodpecker management strategies and suggestions for regional specificity in future management	4
Oil and gas development does not reduce duck pair abundance in the Prairie Pothole Region	4
Future climate change will impact the size and location of breeding and wintering areas of migratory thrushes in South America	4
Large-scale supplemental feeding alters lay date and nest survival in Eastern Bluebirds but not in two species of chickadees	4
Rusty Blackbirds select areas of greater habitat complexity during stopover	4
Irruptive White Ibis breeding is associated with use of freshwater crayfish in the coastal Everglades	4
Colony characteristics influence nest survival of Caribbean Roseate Terns	4
Predation, parasitism, and drought counteract the benefits of patch-burn grazing for the reproductive success of grassland songbirds	4
Year-round monitoring at a Pacific coastal campus reveals similar winter and spring collision mortality and high vulnerability of the Varied Thrush	4
Supportive wind conditions influence offshore movements of Atlantic Coast Piping Plovers during fall migration	4
Highly specialized recreationists contribute the most to the citizen science project eBird	4
A parasite reduction conservation intervention does not improve fledging success or most condition metrics for Purple Martins	4
Metapopulation connectivity retains genetic diversity following a historical bottleneck in a federally endangered seabird	4
Juggling parenthood and ornithology: A full lifecycle approach to supporting mothers through the American Ornithological Society	4
Low reproductive success of the endangered Iberá Seedeater in its only known breeding site, the Iberá Wetlands, Argentina	4
Habitat openness and edge avoidance predict Saltmarsh Sparrow abundance better than habitat area	4
Migratory status determines resource selection by American Woodcock at an important fall stopover, Cape May, New Jersey	4

U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System likely to see regional and seasonal species turnover in bird assemblages under a 2°C warming scenario	4
Postrelease survival of captive-bred Egyptian Vultures is similar to that of wild-hatched Egyptian Vultures and is not affected by release age or season	4
Interannual climate variation influences nest initiation date and nest productivity of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker at the northwestern edge of its range	4
Distribution models using semi-structured community science data outperform unstructured-data models for a data-poor species, the Plain Tyrannulet	4