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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Oxidative state is associated with migration distance, but not traits linked to flight energetics	291
Corrigendum to “Syntax in animal communication: its study in songbirds and other taxa”	188
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	19
Energetic constraints drive sex‐specific parental care in the monomorphic Leach's storm‐petrelHydrobates leucorhous	19
Consistent apparent adult survival and nest‐site fidelity of whimbrelNumenius phaeopusnear Churchill, Manitoba, Canada over a 40 year period	16
Drivers of partial migration in the reddish egret Egretta rufescens	14
Hanging out in the outback: the use of social hotspots by wild zebra finches	13
Assessing the impacts of livestock grazing on upland bird breeding territories using drone surveys	12
Effect sizes of divergence in urban noise and song minimum frequency of grey‐cheeked fulvettas Alcippe morrisonia morrisonia	11
Stopover regions, phenology, and spatiotemporal group dynamics of adult and juvenile common terns Sterna hirundo from inland lakes in North America	11
No support for solar radiation as a major evolutionary driver of malar stripes in falcons	10
Acoustic phenology of tropical resident birds differs between native forest species and parkland colonizer species	10
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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
Migration of black terns Chlidonias niger and common terns Sterna hirundo between south Sweden and the Atlantic coast of Africa	9
Life history traits, habitat characteristics, and phylogeny influence tick infestation probability in tropical wild birds	9
Heavy metal pollution exposure affects egg coloration but not male provisioning effort in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca	9
Energetic synchrony throughout the non‐breeding season in common guillemots from four colonies	9
Egg size effects on nestling mass in jackdaws Corvus monedula: a cross‐foster experiment	9
Climatic variation influences annual survival of an island‐breeding tropical shorebird	8
Extra‐pair paternity enhances the reproductive fitness of urban Chinese blackbird	8
The interplay of resource availability and parent foraging strategies on juvenile sparrow individual specialization	8
Mechanisms matching timing to resources: comparisons of closely related seasonally sympatric, migratory and non‐migratory populations	8
Activity patterns of Hawaiian forest birds in a fragmented and continuous landscape	7

A trans‐African migrant shows repeatable route choice in males and repeatable timing in females	7
Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?	7
Moult terminology: envisioning an evolutionary approach	7
Experimentally impaired female condition does not affect biliverdin‐based egg colour	7
Adaptive immunity modulation linked to migratory behaviour in two partially migratory hoopoe Upupa epops populations	7
Does hatch date set the clock? Timing of post‐fledging movements for families of a colonially breeding, long‐distance migratory songbird	7
Good vibrations: remote‐tactile foraging success of wading birds is positively affected by the water content of substrates they forage in	7
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Habitat area and environmental filters determine avian richness along an elevation gradient in mountain peatlands	7
Heterozygosity, genetic similarity and extra‐pair paternity variation in two populations of rock sparrow Petronia petronia: a within and between populations comparison	7
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
Nest mass in forest tits increases with elevation and decreasing body mass, promoting reproductive success	6
Translocation experiment of taiga bean geese Anser fabalis provides evidence for oblique social learning of moult migration	6
Are urbanization and brood parasitism associated with differences in telomere lengths in song sparrows?	6
Correction to Multiple stressors: negative effects of nest predation on the viability of a threatened gull in different environmental conditions	6
Blood‐ and muscle‐O₂ storage capacity in North American diving ducks	6
Influence of floral orientation on feeding behavior in Anna's hummingbirds	6
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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	6
Nestling growth rate and food consumption increases under experimentally prolonged daylength in a New World sparrow	6
Insufficient considerations of seasonality, data selection and validation lead to biased species–climate relationships in mountain birds	5
Anything for a quiet life: shelter from mobbers drives reproductive success in a top‐level avian predator	5
Local weather and endogenous factors affect the initiation of migration in short‐ and medium‐distance songbird migrants	5
Examining inter‐regional and intra‐seasonal differences in wintering waterfowl landscape associations among Pacific and Atlantic flyways	5
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	5
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Phylogeography and demographic history of the black kite Milvus migrans, a widespread raptor in Eurasia, Australia and Africa	5
Dynamic body acceleration improves mapping of at‐sea foraging behavior in black‐tailed gulls Larus crassirostris	5
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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
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Preening correlates with lower feather bacteria abundance but not feather coloration in a lek‐breeding bird	4
Climate trends and behavior of a model Amazonian terrestrial insectivore, black‐faced antthrush, indicate adjustment to hot and dry conditions	4
Genetic and phenotypic differentiation in Thamnophilus ruficapillus, a Neotropical passerine with disjunct distribution in the Andean and Atlantic forests	4
Role of the Chicamocha River Canyon on the phylogeography of humid montane forest birds in Colombia	4
Nowhere to escape: the cross‐age avian haemosporidian exposure of migrants in northeast China	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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Calls of Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus contain individual signatures	4
The trophic strategy of the European honey‐buzzard Pernis apivorus during breeding: extravagant specialization or ingenious solution?	4
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The combination of miniaturized GPS/VHF tags and soluble backpack harness as an effective method for tracking lightweight and elusive birds	4
Carry‐over effects on reproduction in food‐supplemented wintering great tits	4
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Hot stops: timing, pathways, and habitat selection of migrating eastern whip‐poor‐wills	3
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Bear presence attracts avian predators but does not impact lesser snow goose daily nest attendance	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
Local male breeding density affects extra‐pair paternity in a south temperate population of grass wrensCistothorus platensis	3
Spring and autumn movements of an Arctic bird in relation to temperature and primary production	3
Maturational changes in song sparrow song	3
Structural and socioeconomic features of cities predict migratory bird species richness	3
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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	3
First demographic insights reveal high extinction risk of an endemic raptor species: the Reunion harrier	3
Preening for protection: a systematic review of the antimicrobial properties of uropygial secretions	3
A tail of plumage colouration: disentangling geographic, seasonal and dietary effects on plumage colour in a migratory songbird	3
Food restriction delays breeding and affects insulin‐like growth factor‐1, oxidative damage and haematocrit value before egg‐laying in female canaries	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
Are breeding activities risky for northern bobwhites? An assessment of survival costs of reproduction	3
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Tissue‐ and diet‐dependent stable carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination: a calibration study in a captive shorebird species	3
Post‐colony swimming migration in the genus Uria	3
Daily and seasonal use of vocalizations by nesting black‐tailed godwits	3
The multifaceted vocal duets of white‐browed sparrow weavers are based on complex duetting rules	3
Evaluating the effects of tracking devices on survival, breeding success, behavior, and condition of a small, partially migratory shorebird	3
Syntax in animal communication: its study in songbirds and other taxa	2
Effects of climate on bill morphology within and across Toxostoma thrashers	2
Patterns in avian reproduction in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska, 2003–2019	2
Evolution of female song and duetting in the chaffinch (Fringilla) species complex	2
Exceptionally high apparent adult survival in three tropical species of plovers in Madagascar	2
Genetic diversity and sperm characteristics are not associated in two bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) populations	2
Canada goose fecal microbiota correlate with geography more than host‐associated factors	2
Anthropogenic noise, song, and territorial aggression in southern house wrens	2
Measuring avian bill size: comparing and evaluating 3D surface scanning with traditional size estimates in Australian birds	2
Using metabolic data to investigate the role of brood size in the development of endothermy	2
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Migration strategies, performance and annual activity budget in a short‐distance migrant, the common starlingSturnus vulgaris	2
Integrating adverse effects of triazole fungicides on reproduction and physiology of farmland birds	2
Active defence mechanisms in brood parasitism hosts and their consequences for parasite adaptation and speciation	2
Disentangling the relative roles of geographical and ecological factors in driving genomic variations of a widely distributed bird across a longitudinal gradient	2
Ecomorphs are not species: the case of locally adapted populations of red crossbills	2
Nest predation and climate change as drivers of alternative reproductive tactics in a migratory species	2
Interspecific competition and facilitation coexist in mixed‐species bird flocks of montane coniferous forests in Taiwan	2
The regulatory basis of migratory behaviour in birds: different paths to similar outcomes	2
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the ancient genus Onychorhynchus (Aves: Onychorhynchidae) suggest cryptic Amazonian diversity	2
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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
Itinerant lifestyle and congregation of lesser kestrels in West Africa	1
Maternal in‐nest call structure reduces habituation risk in songbird embryos	1
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Genetic differentiation between two subspecies of Emberiza schoeniclus and open forest bunting's evolution inferred from mitogenomes	1
Gardeners of the forest: hornbills govern the spatial distribution of large seeds	1
Nest orientation and proximity to snow patches are important for nest site selection of a cavity breeder at high elevation	1
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Nest defence behaviour is similar between pair members but only male behaviour predicts nest survival in barnacle geese	1
Effects of landscape heterogeneity on bird communities in temperate, boreal, and montane forests – a review	1
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Density dependence of clutch size and offspring sex ratio in starling colonies	1
Same‐sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data	1
Function of juvenile plumage in the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis): aggressive mimicry hypothesis	1
Danger, risk and anti‐predator behavior in the life history of long‐distance migratory sandpipers	1
What doesn't kill you makes you (and your descendants) stronger: a perspective on early‐life exposure to human‐induced challenges as a trigger of compensatory mechanisms	1
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Patterns of parental care and movement in divided broods of golden‐winged warblers	1
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Secrets of the night: roost sites and sleep disturbance factors during the autumn migration of first‐year white storkCiconia ciconia	1
Flying stimulates the antioxidant system and protects against oxidative damage in a migratory songbird, yet diet quality has little effect	1
Discordancy of two common methods of measuring feather hydrophobicity	1
Spatial and temporal migratory connectivity of two sympatrically breeding wood‐warblers with geographically discordant population trends	1
Do older parents do better? Relationships between parental age, chick body condition and migratory behaviour in a colonial‐breeding waterbird	1
Climate change and nest predation affect shifts in timing and duration of breeding as well as reproductive success in a migratory species	1
Young male blackcaps with blood parasite coinfections cope with oxidative stress favouring anthocyanin‐rich food during migratory fattening	1
Different migration patterns of Wahlberg's eagles Hieraaetus wahlbergi across Africa	1
The influence of temperature, humidity and wind on the daily visits to water by the Australian zebra finch	1
Object neophilia in wild herring gulls in urban and rural locations	1
Estimate of Strouhal and Reynolds numbers for swimming penguins	1
New distributional opportunities with niche innovation in Eurasian snowfinches	1
Sea crossings of migratory pink‐footed geese: seasonal effects of winds on flying and stopping behaviour	1
Nest‐boxes alter the reproductive ecology of urban cavity‐nesters in a species‐dependent way	1
Causes and consequences of material variation in avian nest building	1
Bird migration in space and time: chain migration by Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata arquata along the East Atlantic Flyway	1
Associations between human non‐motorised recreational activity on nest box occupation, exploratory behaviour and breeding success in a passerine bird	1