OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Avian Biology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the impacts of livestock grazing on upland bird breeding territories using drone surveys	274
Corrigendum to “Syntax in animal communication: its study in songbirds and other taxa”	168
Consistent apparent adult survival and nest‐site fidelity of whimbrelNumenius phaeopusnear Churchill, Manitoba, Canada over a 40 year period	25
Effect sizes of divergence in urban noise and song minimum frequency of grey‐cheeked fulvettas Alcippe morrisonia morrisonia	19
Drivers of partial migration in the reddish egret Egretta rufescens	18
Hanging out in the outback: the use of social hotspots by wild zebra finches	18
Oxidative state is associated with migration distance, but not traits linked to flight energetics	16
Stopover regions, phenology, and spatiotemporal group dynamics of adult and juvenile common terns Sterna hirundo from inland lakes in North America	12
A longitudinal analysis of the growth rate and mass of tail feathers in a great tit population: ontogeny, genetic effects and relationship between both traits	12
Energetic constraints drive sex‐specific parental care in the monomorphic Leach's storm‐petrelHydrobates leucorhous	12
Heavy metal pollution exposure affects egg coloration but not male provisioning effort in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca	11
Acoustic phenology of tropical resident birds differs between native forest species and parkland colonizer species	11
No support for solar radiation as a major evolutionary driver of malar stripes in falcons	10
Migration of black terns Chlidonias niger and common terns Sterna hirundo between south Sweden and the Atlantic coast of Africa	10
Egg size effects on nestling mass in jackdaws Corvus monedula: a cross‐foster experiment	9
Life history traits, habitat characteristics, and phylogeny influence tick infestation probability in tropical wild birds	9
Energetic synchrony throughout the non‐breeding season in common guillemots from four colonies	9
Genetic analysis of museum samples suggests temporal stability in the Mexican nonbreeding distribution of a neotropical migrant	9
Effects of supplemental feeding on nesting success and physiological metrics in eastern bluebirds Sialia sialis	9
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Adaptive immunity modulation linked to migratory behaviour in two partially migratory hoopoe Upupa epops populations	8
Climatic variation influences annual survival of an island‐breeding tropical shorebird	8
Mechanisms matching timing to resources: comparisons of closely related seasonally sympatric, migratory and non‐migratory populations	8
The interplay of resource availability and parent foraging strategies on juvenile sparrow individual specialization	8
Experimentally impaired female condition does not affect biliverdin‐based egg colour	7

Extra‐pair paternity enhances the reproductive fitness of urban Chinese blackbird	7
Sunbirds' tendency to hover: the roles of energetic rewards, inflorescence architecture and rain	7
A trans‐African migrant shows repeatable route choice in males and repeatable timing in females	7
Moult terminology: envisioning an evolutionary approach	7
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Activity patterns of Hawaiian forest birds in a fragmented and continuous landscape	7
Good vibrations: remote‐tactile foraging success of wading birds is positively affected by the water content of substrates they forage in	7
Does hatch date set the clock? Timing of post‐fledging movements for families of a colonially breeding, long‐distance migratory songbird	7
Habitat area and environmental filters determine avian richness along an elevation gradient in mountain peatlands	6
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Blood‐ and muscle‐O₂ storage capacity in North American diving ducks	6
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Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?	6
Condition‐dependent immune response in a migrating shorebird, the common snipe Gallinago gallinago	6
Trophic strategies of two sympatric endemic pigeons in insular ecosystems: a framework for understanding spatiotemporal frugivory interactions	6
Correction to Multiple stressors: negative effects of nest predation on the viability of a threatened gull in different environmental conditions	6
Heterozygosity, genetic similarity and extra‐pair paternity variation in two populations of rock sparrow Petronia petronia: a within and between populations comparison	6
Are urbanization and brood parasitism associated with differences in telomere lengths in song sparrows?	6
Translocation experiment of taiga bean geese Anser fabalis provides evidence for oblique social learning of moult migration	6
Comparison of myonuclear domain in phylogenetically paired tropical and temperate bird species	6
Factors influencing nest site selection in a rapidly declining shorebird, the Eurasian curlew	5
Nestling growth rate and food consumption increases under experimentally prolonged daylength in a New World sparrow	5
Anything for a quiet life: shelter from mobbers drives reproductive success in a top‐level avian predator	5
Influence of floral orientation on feeding behavior in Anna's hummingbirds	5
Migration patterns and wintering distribution of common loons breeding in the Upper Midwest	5
Local weather and endogenous factors affect the initiation of migration in short‐ and medium‐distance songbird migrants	5
Dynamic body acceleration improves mapping of at‐sea foraging behavior in black‐tailed gulls Larus crassirostris	5
Calls of Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus contain individual signatures	4
Preening correlates with lower feather bacteria abundance but not feather coloration in a lek‐breeding bird	4
Geolocation and immersion loggers reveal year‐round residency and facilitate nutrient deposition rate estimation of adult red‐footed boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, tropical Indian Ocean	4
The probability of being infected with haemosporidian parasites increases with host age but is not affected by experimental testosterone elevation in a wild songbird	4
Experimentally induced flight costs do not lead to increased reliance on supplemental food in winter by a small songbird	4
The trophic strategy of the European honey‐buzzard Pernis apivorus during breeding: extravagant specialization or ingenious solution?	4
Insufficient considerations of seasonality, data selection and validation lead to biased species–climate relationships in mountain birds	4
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Examining inter‐regional and intra‐seasonal differences in wintering waterfowl landscape associations among Pacific and Atlantic flyways	4
Genetic and phenotypic differentiation in Thamnophilus ruficapillus, a Neotropical passerine with disjunct distribution in the Andean and Atlantic forests	4
Climate trends and behavior of a model Amazonian terrestrial insectivore, black‐faced antthrush, indicate adjustment to hot and dry conditions	4
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Nowhere to escape: the cross‐age avian haemosporidian exposure of migrants in northeast China	4
Role of the Chicamocha River Canyon on the phylogeography of humid montane forest birds in Colombia	4
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Phylogeography and demographic history of the black kite Milvus migrans, a widespread raptor in Eurasia, Australia and Africa	4
Recurrence, fidelity and proximity to previously visited sites throughout the annual cycle in a trans‐Saharan migrant, the common cuckoo	4
Defining moults in migratory birds: a sequence‐based approach	4
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Hot stops: timing, pathways, and habitat selection of migrating eastern whip‐poor‐wills	3
Food restriction delays breeding and affects insulin‐like growth factor‐1, oxidative damage and haematocrit value before egg‐laying in female canaries	3
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Post‐colony swimming migration in the genus Uria	3

Sperm numbers on the perivitelline layers of blue tit eggs are repeatable within a clutch, but independent of the occurrence of extra‐pair paternity	3
Carry‐over effects on reproduction in food‐supplemented wintering great tits	3
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Are breeding activities risky for northern bobwhites? An assessment of survival costs of reproduction	3
Tissue‐ and diet‐dependent stable carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination: a calibration study in a captive shorebird species	3
Preening for protection: a systematic review of the antimicrobial properties of uropygial secretions	3
The multifaceted vocal duets of white‐browed sparrow weavers are based on complex duetting rules	3
A tail of plumage colouration: disentangling geographic, seasonal and dietary effects on plumage colour in a migratory songbird	3
Spring and autumn movements of an Arctic bird in relation to temperature and primary production	3
First demographic insights reveal high extinction risk of an endemic raptor species: the Reunion harrier	3
Structural and socioeconomic features of cities predict migratory bird species richness	3
Compensatory effect of egg size dimorphism on hatching asynchrony in Magellanic penguin	3
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Maturational changes in song sparrow song	3
Local male breeding density affects extra‐pair paternity in a south temperate population of grass wrensCistothorus platensis	3
Effects of urban life on the gut microbiota and the susceptibility to avian malaria infection in a population of the house sparrow Passer domesticus	3
Daily and seasonal use of vocalizations by nesting black‐tailed godwits	3
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Integrating adverse effects of triazole fungicides on reproduction and physiology of farmland birds	2
Nest orientation and proximity to snow patches are important for nest site selection of a cavity breeder at high elevation	2
Migration strategies, performance and annual activity budget in a short‐distance migrant, the common starlingSturnus vulgaris	2
Active defence mechanisms in brood parasitism hosts and their consequences for parasite adaptation and speciation	2
Evolution of female song and duetting in the chaffinch (Fringilla) species complex	2
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Nest predation and climate change as drivers of alternative reproductive tactics in a migratory species	2
Patterns in avian reproduction in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska, 2003–2019	2
Using metabolic data to investigate the role of brood size in the development of endothermy	2
Bear presence attracts avian predators but does not impact lesser snow goose daily nest attendance	2
The regulatory basis of migratory behaviour in birds: different paths to similar outcomes	2
Disentangling the relative roles of geographical and ecological factors in driving genomic variations of a widely distributed bird across a longitudinal gradient	2
Exceptionally high apparent adult survival in three tropical species of plovers in Madagascar	2
Using juvenile movements as a proxy for adult habitat and space use in long‐lived territorial species: a case study on the golden eagle	2
Measuring avian bill size: comparing and evaluating 3D surface scanning with traditional size estimates in Australian birds	2
Interspecific competition and facilitation coexist in mixed‐species bird flocks of montane coniferous forests in Taiwan	2
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Effects of climate on bill morphology within and across Toxostoma thrashers	2
Genetic diversity and sperm characteristics are not associated in two bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) populations	2
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Ecomorphs are not species: the case of locally adapted populations of red crossbills	2
Anthropogenic noise, song, and territorial aggression in southern house wrens	2
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the ancient genus Onychorhynchus (Aves: Onychorhynchidae) suggest cryptic Amazonian diversity	2
Syntax in animal communication: its study in songbirds and other taxa	2
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Response to Hill and Powers: It is irrelevant that the mode and tempo of Cassia crossbill speciation is not typical for birds	2
Estimate of Strouhal and Reynolds numbers for swimming penguins	1
Genetic differentiation between two subspecies of Emberiza schoeniclus and open forest bunting's evolution inferred from mitogenomes	1
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Weak population structure in the North American house wren Troglodytes aedon	1
Nest‐boxes alter the reproductive ecology of urban cavity‐nesters in a species‐dependent way	1
Egg shape variation across the distribution of the partially migratory fork‐tailed flycatcher Tyrannus savana	1
Secrets of the night: roost sites and sleep disturbance factors during the autumn migration of first‐year white storkCiconia ciconia	1
Associations between human non‐motorised recreational activity on nest box occupation, exploratory behaviour and breeding success in a passerine bird	1
Object neophilia in wild herring gulls in urban and rural locations	1
Itinerant lifestyle and congregation of lesser kestrels in West Africa	1
Climate change and nest predation affect shifts in timing and duration of breeding as well as reproductive success in a migratory species	1
New distributional opportunities with niche innovation in Eurasian snowfinches	1
Canada goose fecal microbiota correlate with geography more than host‐associated factors	1
Gardeners of the forest: hornbills govern the spatial distribution of large seeds	1
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Discordancy of two common methods of measuring feather hydrophobicity	1
Causes and consequences of material variation in avian nest building	1
Density dependence of clutch size and offspring sex ratio in starling colonies	1
Function of juvenile plumage in the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis): aggressive mimicry hypothesis	1
Bird migration in space and time: chain migration by Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata arquata along the East Atlantic Flyway	1
Danger, risk and anti‐predator behavior in the life history of long‐distance migratory sandpipers	1
Different migration patterns of Wahlberg's eagles Hieraaetus wahlbergi across Africa	1
Patterns of parental care and movement in divided broods of golden‐winged warblers	1
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First tracking of declining Caspian terns Hydroprogne caspia breeding in the Baltic Sea reveals high migratory dispersion and disjunct annual ranges as obstacles to effective conservation	1
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Nest defence behaviour is similar between pair members but only male behaviour predicts nest survival in barnacle geese	1
Sea crossings of migratory pink‐footed geese: seasonal effects of winds on flying and stopping behaviour	1
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Maternal in‐nest call structure reduces habituation risk in songbird embryos	1
Young male blackcaps with blood parasite coinfections cope with oxidative stress favouring anthocyanin‐rich food during migratory fattening	1
Same‐sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data	1
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