OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Avian Biology 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Evolution of population‐specific migration routes in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus – evidence of a novel spring migration strategy	23
Assessing the impacts of livestock grazing on upland bird breeding territories using drone surveys	19
Constitutive immune function variation across the non‐breeding season in an extreme long‐distance migrant	17
Drivers of partial migration in the reddish egret Egretta rufescens	15
Hanging out in the outback: the use of social hotspots by wild zebra finches	14
Oxidative state is associated with migration distance, but not traits linked to flight energetics	13
Stopover regions, phenology, and spatiotemporal group dynamics of adult and juvenile common terns Sterna hirundo from inland lakes in North America	13
Corrigendum to “Syntax in animal communication: its study in songbirds and other taxa”	13
Consistent apparent adult survival and nest‐site fidelity of whimbrel Numenius phaeopus near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada over a 40 year period	12
Effect sizes of divergence in urban noise and song minimum frequency of grey‐cheeked fulvettas Alcippe morrisonia morrisonia	12
Inter‐ and intra‐individual variation in the feather coloration of American crows	12
Heavy metal pollution exposure affects egg coloration but not male provisioning effort in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca	11
Migration of black terns Chlidonias niger and common terns Sterna hirundo between south Sweden and the Atl	11
Egg size effects on nestling mass in jackdaws Corvus monedula : a cross‐foster experiment	11
Acoustic phenology of tropical resident birds differs between native forest species and parkland colonizer species	11
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Three decades of western sandpiper stopover dynamics during northward migration on the Pacific Coast of North America, 1992–2022	10
Energetic synchrony throughout the non‐breeding season in common guillemots from four colonies	10
No support for solar radiation as a major evolutionary driver of malar stripes in falcons	10
Life history traits, habitat characteristics, and phylogeny influence tick infestation probability in tropical wild birds	9
Age dependent reproductive effort in great tits	9
The interplay of resource availability and parent foraging strategies on juvenile sparrow individual specialization	9
Frailty: measurement and utility in avian studies	9
Age and sex effects on spring migration timing in great reed warblers: early start allows older males to arrive first	9

Genetic analysis of museum samples suggests temporal stability in the Mexican nonbreeding distribution of a neotropical migrant	9
Climatic variation influences annual survival of an island‐breeding tropical shorebird	9
Adaptive immunity modulation linked to migratory behaviour in two partially migratory hoopoe Upupa epops populations	8
A potential role for epigenetic mechanisms enabling appropriate seasonal reproductive transitions of liver yolk‐precursor production	8
Seasonal activity and behavioural responses to artificial light at night in migratory and non‐migratory sparrows	8
Epigenetic changes as regulatory mechanism for the expression of life history stages in Zonotrichia capensis inhabiting an aseasonal environment	8
Extra‐pair paternity enhances the reproductive fitness of urban Chinese blackbird	8
Moult terminology: envisioning an evolutionary approach	7
Mechanisms matching timing to resources: comparisons of closely related seasonally sympatric, migratory and non‐migratory populations	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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Are urbanization and brood parasitism associated with differences in telomere lengths in song sparrows?	6
Blood‐ and muscle‐O ₂ storage capacity in North American diving ducks	6
Simulated bacterial infection induces different changes in DNA methylation between introduced and native house sparrows Passer domesticus	6
Correction to Multiple stressors: negative effects of nest predation on the viability of a threatened gull in different environmental conditions	6
Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?	6
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A trans‐African migrant shows repeatable route choice in males and repeatable timing in females	6
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Perceived eggshell luminance does not predict rejection of experimental egg models in eastern bluebirds	6
Condition‐dependent immune response in a migrating shorebird, the common snipe Gallinago gallinago	6
Factors influencing nest site selection in a rapidly declining shorebird, the Eurasian curlew	5
Preening correlates with lower feather bacteria abundance but not feather coloration in a lek‐breeding bird	5
Dynamic body acceleration improves mapping of at‐sea foraging behavior in black‐tailed gulls Larus crassirostris	5
Anything for a quiet life: shelter from mobbers drives reproductive success in a top‐level avian predator	5
Translocation experiment of taiga bean geese Anser fabalis provides evidence for oblique social learning of moult migration	5
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Local weather and endogenous factors affect the initiation of migration in short‐ and medium‐distance songbird migrants	5
Influence of floral orientation on feeding behavior in Anna's hummingbirds	5
Nest mass in forest tits (Paridae) increases with elevation and decreasing body mass, promoting reproductive success	5
Power source, data retrieval method, and attachment type affect success of dorsally mounted tracking tag deployments in 37 species of shorebirds	5
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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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Nestling growth rate and food consumption increases under experimentally prolonged daylength in a New World sparrow	5
Nowhere to escape: the cross‐age avian haemosporidian exposure of migrants in northeast China	4
Age‐related changes of oxidative status and immune function in a long‐lived seabird	4
Experimental comparison of defence behaviour against different avian top predators in an intraguild prey	4
Effects of urban life on the gut microbiota and the susceptibility to avian malaria infection in a population of the house sparrow Passer domesticus	4
First demographic insights reveal high extinction risk of an endemic raptor species: the Reunion harrier	4
Recurrence, fidelity and proximity to previously visited sites throughout the annual cycle in a trans‐Saharan migrant, the common cuckoo	4
Diet‐manipulated body condition affects onset and speed of moult in common bulbuls in a tropical environment	4
The trophic strategy of the European honey‐buzzard Pernis apivorus during breeding: extravagant specialization or ingenious solution?	4
The combination of miniaturized GPS/VHF tags and soluble backpack harness as an effective method for tracking lightweight and elusive birds	4
Sleep deprivation and stress hormone manipulation alter composition and decrease diversity in the gut microbiotas of common mynas	4
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Calls of Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus contain individual signatures	4
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 fores	4
Forest degradation reduces acoustic partitioning in tropical avian communities	4

Incubation behaviour in a double‐nesting alpine bird Alectoris graeca saxatilis : similar nest attendance by males and females