OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Avian Conservation and Ecology 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling the impact of climate change and wildfire on the Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) in the American Southwest: implications for conservation	12
Using an ensemble approach to predict habitat of Dusky Grouse ( Dendragapus obscurus ) in Montana, USA	12
Whooping Crane (Grus americana) use patterns in relation to an ecotope classification in the Central Platte River Valley, Nebraska, USA	11
Natal origins of Mallards harvested in the Atlantic Flyway of North America: implications for conservation and management	11
Forest specialist species in the urban landscape: Do different levels of urbanization affect the movements of Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso)?	10
Weather and climate change drive annual variation of reproduction by an aerial insectivore	10
Effects of oil and gas development on duck nest survival in the Western Boreal Forest	9
A lidar-based openness index to aid conservation planning for grassland wildlife	8
Nesting Mottled Duck ( Anas fulvigula ) selection of ungrazed grasslands in southwestern Louisiana is associated with increased nest survival	8
Home range patterns of Helmeted Woodpecker (Celeus galeatus), Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus), and Robust Woodpecker (Campephilus robustus) in Misiones, Argentina, in a global perspective	7
The continued decline of the Palila ( Loxioides bailleui ) on Mauna Kea, Island of Hawaiʻi	7
Does human disturbance affect physiological traits of Two-banded Plovers nesting on an urban beach?	7
Use of alternate upland nesting habitat reduces brood parasitism in an endangered bird	7
Quantifying rosy-finch migration with stable hydrogen isotope feather markers highlights the need for inter-state collaboration to reach conservation goals	7
Abundance of Long-billed Curlews on military lands in the Columbia Basin	6
Deterrents intended to mitigate mining effects mostly fail to change nesting behavior of Arctic breeding birds	6
Landscape influences non-breeding performance of a Nearctic-Neotropical migratory songbird	6
Using tracking technology to locate endangered ʻuaʻu or Hawaiian Petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) burrows	6
Conservation of North American migratory birds: insights from developments in tracking technologies	5
Seeing isn’t always believing: visual observations underestimate space use in the eastern Grasshopper Sparrow ( Ammodramus savannarum pratensis )	5
Habitat use of conifer forests for Interior Band-tailed Pigeons is mediated by precipitation	5
Spatiotemporal patterns in Golden-cheeked Warbler breeding habitat quantity and suitability	5
Bioacoustically derived migration arrival times in boreal birds: implications for assessing habitat quality	5
Migratory songbirds and urban window collision mortality: vulnerability depends on species, diel timing of migration, and age class	5
In the still of the night: revisiting Eastern Whip-poor-will surveys with passive acoustic monitoring	5

Night-migratory songbird density is highest at stopover sites with intermediate forest cover and low proportion of forest in conifers in the surrounding landscape	5
Drought disrupts year-round breeding readiness in a tropical songbird	5
Effects of imperfect detection on inferences from bird surveys	4
Arthropod prey and diets of woodland migrants are similar between natural riparian woodlands and anthropogenic woodlots in the northern prairie region	4
Annual migratory movement, apparent molt-migration, migration schedule, and diffuse migratory connectivity of Hermit Warblers	4
Examining the potential impacts of geolocators on a small migratory songbird, the Golden-cheeked Warbler: results from a multi-year study	4
Distribution, migratory behavior, and conservation of Hudson’s Canastero Asthenes hudsoni (Furnariidae): a grassland specialist from the humid Pampas	4
Implications of pasture improvement for bird conservation in the high plains of the Colombian Llanos	4
Bird species responses to forest-savanna boundaries in an Amazonian savanna	4
Survival of fallen and returned rooftop nesting Least Tern chicks	4
Spatial segregation between Gray-cheeked Thrush and an introduced nest predator in a managed forest landscape	4
Response to In Memoriam Keith Hobson	4
Identifying spatial drivers of long-term population growth in three large gull species: the importance of mink farms and urban areas	4
Field-validated species distribution model of Canada Warbler ( Cardellina canadensis ) in Northwestern Ontario	3
Diversity in selection patterns of five grassland songbirds in dry-mixed grasslands of Alberta	3
Experts’ opinions on threats to Leach’s Storm-Petrels ( Hydrobates leucorhous ) across their global range	3
Nest concealment reduces predation during the nestling stage of grassland birds in the Pampas	3
Losing the edge: trends in core versus peripheral populations in a declining migratory songbird	3
Weather and regional effects on winter counts of Rusty Blackbirds ( Euphagus carolinus )	3
Survival of captive-raised light-footed Ridgway’s rails is influenced by release date and time in wild	3
Kirtland’s Warbler breeding productivity and habitat use in red pine-dominated habitat in Wisconsin, USA	3
Influence of human activity on gut microbiota and immune responses of Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands	3
Twenty years of the “radical middle ground” – our work has only just begun	3
Survival of Common Loon chicks appears unaffected by Bald Eagle recovery in northern Minnesota	3
Raptors benefit from biosolids applications on rangelands	3
Mortality of grassland birds increases with transmission lines	3
Quantifying gull predation in a declining Leach’s Storm-petrel ( Hydrobates leucorhous ) colony	3
Population trends and effects of local environmental factors on waterbirds at Tanguar Haor freshwater wetland complex in northeast Bangladesh	3
Ontario’s Double-crested Cormorant hunting season may be ineffective but that doesn’t mean there are no conflict issues	3
Comparative use of artificial structures and natural vegetation by birds in a built-up urban area in Ghana	3
Exotic plants and other habitat characteristics do not impact Veery reproductive success at multiple spatial scales in northeastern Pennsylvania	3
Pinyon-juniper specialist birds are resilient to local-scale reduction of canopy cover and pinyon pines, but amount of understory shrub cover determines the composition of the insectivore guild	3
Factors influencing home range size and overlap in nonbreeding Kirtland’s Warblers on Eleuthera, The Bahamas	3
Movement of Canada Geese in urban and rural areas of Iowa, USA	3
Estimation of the reference lead (Pb) concentration levels affecting immune cells in the blood of Black-headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Laridae)	3
Trends in bird counts 1978–2020 in a New Zealand Nothofagus forest with variable control of mammalian predators	2
Influence of boreal forest disturbance and conspecific attraction on the Canada Warbler ( Cardellina canadensis ) habitat choices during the breeding season	2
Evaluating trade-offs in spatial versus temporal replication when estimating avian community composition and predicting species distributions	2
Long-distance dispersal patterns in the Cerulean Warbler: a case study from Indiana	2
Estimating regional trajectories and trends of seabirds from sparse and inconsistent colony counts: case studies from eastern Canada with Leach’s Storm-Petrel and Atlantic Puffin	2
Factors affecting the breeding ecology of the globally threatened Lesser Adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus) in agricultural landscapes of Nepal	2
Insights on post-breeding movements from a northeastern population of Canada Warblers (Cardellina canadensis)	2
Estimated number of birds killed by domestic cats in Colombia	2
Full-service hotels, convenience stores, or fire escapes? Evaluating the functional role of stopover sites for Neotropical migrants following passage across the Gulf of Mexico in autumn	2
Evaluating captive-release strategies for the Western Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia hypugaea )	2
Population density estimates and key microhabitat parameters for two endangered tropical forest understory insectivorous passerines from the Pernambuco Endemism Center	2
Experimental evidence suggests that broadcasting rail calls overnight can influence broad-scale site selection by migrating rails	2
Female migration phenology and climate conditions explain juvenile Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) counts during fall migration	2
Patch-burn grazing provides resources for upland-nesting ducks	2
Highly variable movements by Andean Flamingos ( Phoenicoparrus andinus ): implications for conservation and management	2

Hemlock looper outbreak: new insight about how Black-backed Woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus ) respond to resource pulses in eastern Canada	2
Snag density and stand age, but not stand size, explain occupancy and reproduction of an imperiled cavity nester in early successional forest	2
Space use and movements of inland wintering Whooping Cranes in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo population	2
Sharp-tailed Grouse increase site use after prescribed fire but not mechanical treatments during the fall	2
In the twilight zone: patterns in Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) acoustic signals during the breeding season and recommendations for surveys	2
Using data from camera traps and autonomous recording units to evaluate and improve species-habitat inferences	2
A new method to estimate abundance of Australasian Bittern ( Botaurus poiciloptilus ) from acoustic recordings	2
Breeding habitat selection of Canada Warblers across three distinct landscapes in Québec	2
Home-range habitat selection by Ferruginous Hawks in western Canada: implications for wind-energy conflicts	2
Functional habitat suitability and urban encroachment explain temporal and spatial variations in abundance of a declining farmland bird, the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax	2
Bias-corrected natal dispersal estimates fill information gaps for White-headed Woodpecker conservation	2
Evaluating the effects of Natural Resources Conservation Service project implementation on the disturbance-dependent avian community with implications for Blue-winged Warblers	2
Nest-site selection and breeding biology of the locally endangered Micronesian Starling (Aplonis opaca) informs its recovery on Guam	2
The nuthatch and the hare: Slow explorers dominate in a re-established population of the Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) two decades later	2
Spatially explicit population trend estimates of owls in the Maritime provinces of Canada and the influence of call playback	1
Migratory stopover sites used by Reddish Egrets: prioritization for conservation	1
Habitat selection by Rocky Mountain Population greater Sandhill Cranes ( Antigone canadensis tabida ) during spring and autumn migration at a key stopover area	1
Imperiled sparrows can exhibit high nest survival despite atypical nest site selection in urban saltmarshes	1
Seasonal variation in drivers of bird-window collisions on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada	1
Patterns and drivers of population trends on individual Breeding Bird Survey routes using spatially explicit models and route-level covariates	1
Before-and-after evidence that urbanization contributes to the decline of a migratory songbird	1
Habitat selection and site fidelity on winter home ranges of Eastern Whip-poor-wills (Antrostomus vociferus)	1
Snowy Owls in central North America have regular migration and high philopatry to wintering sites though not always to home ranges	1
Breeding habitat loss linked to declines in Rufous Hummingbirds	1
On the lack of scientific evidence for the Ontario cormorant cull and other cormorant management actions: a response to Dorr et al. (2022)	1
Large-scale population trend analysis by integrating migration counts with breeding origin estimates from feather stable isotopes: a case study with Blackpoll Warbler ( Setophaga striata )	1
Environmental drivers of sex-biased foraging behavior in Magnificent Frigatebird in Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
Evidence of historical pairing between two cryptic species of Short-tailed Albatross	1
Over-summering as a risk effect reducing population growth in a long-distance migrant shorebird	1
Seabird predation effects and population viability analysis indicate the urgent need for rat eradication from Europa Island, western Indian Ocean	1
Effects of human land use on avian functional and taxonomic diversity within the upland coastal zone of the North American Great Lakes	1
Accounting for misclassification of subspecies provides insights about habitat use and dynamics of the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow in response to fire	1
Nestling condition of a grassland bird is not associated with food availability in restored grasslands	1
Optimizing survey timing for detecting a declining aerial insectivore, the Black Swift ( Cypseloides niger borealis )	1
The invasive parasitic fly Philornis downsi is threatening Little Vermilion Flycatchers on the Galápagos Islands	1
Sex differences in migration routes and non-breeding areas of a declining shorebird	1
Canada Warbler response to vegetation structure on regenerating seismic lines	1
Nesting phenology of migratory songbirds in an eastern Canadian boreal forest, 1996–2020	1
Radio transmitters do not influence physiological traits of wintering Grasshopper Sparrows ( Ammodramus savannarum ) in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico	1
Automated telemetry reveals migratory movements and stopover timing of an endangered saltmarsh passerine	1
Influences on the use of gravel roads as night roosts by Common Nighthawks in the boreal forest	1
Northern Bobwhite habitat selection during the nonbreeding season in a riparian corridor in Colorado	1
High variation in Eastern Whip-poor-will home-range size and shape limits the effectiveness of one-size-fits-all habitat protection methods	1
Combining community science and MaxEnt modeling to estimate Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) winter abundance and distribution	1
Breeding season space use and habitat selection by Blue-winged Warblers in managed shrublands	1
Conservation-related knowledge, interactions, and attitudes of local people toward Grey Crowned-Cranes ( Balearica regulorum ) in Tanzania	1
Response of boreal songbird communities to the width of linear features created by the energy sector in Alberta, Canada	1
Post-fledging survival, movements, and habitat associations of Gray Vireos in New Mexico	1
Estimates of Southern White-tailed Ptarmigan daily nest survival from multiple sites in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado	1