OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ornithology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren	37
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison	36
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes	27
2022 Brina C. Kessel Award to Benjamin M. Winger and Teresa M. Pegan	27
2021 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Sara Kaiser	24
Robert Charles Leberman, 1937–2020	23
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community	23
Plasma metabolite indices are robust to extrinsic variation and useful indicators of foraging habitat quality in Lesser Scaup	18
Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology	17
The genomic revolution and species delimitation in birds (and other organisms): Why phenotypes should not be overlooked	16
An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	15
Species limits in birds: Australian perspectives on interrelated challenges of allopatry, introgression of mitochondrial DNA, recent speciation, and selection	15
Correction: Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	14
Haemosporidian prevalence and community composition vary little across a chickadee hybrid zone	12
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide	12
Comparative phylogeographic analysis suggests a shared history among eastern North American boreal forest birds	11
Nest-site selection and nest predation in a tropical passerine in relation to food, friends, and foes	10
Body size is associated with yearling breeding and extra-pair mating in the Island Scrub-Jay	10
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	10
No difference in reproductive investment or success across urban and rural breeding pairs in an urban-adapted songbird	10
Painting the Bunting: Carotenoids and structural elements combine to produce the feather coloration of the male Painted Bunting	10
Vagrancy in Birds	10
Winds aloft over three water bodies influence spring stopover distributions of migrating birds along the Gulf of Mexico coast	10
Threshold models improve estimates of molt parameters in datasets with small sample sizes	10
Reproductive roles as likely drivers of sexual dimorphism in New Zealand’s endangered mountain parrot, the Kea	9

David F. DeSante, 1942–2022	9
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2023 Ornithology, Volume 140	9
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches	9
Filoplume morphology covaries with their companion primary suggesting that they are feather-specific sensors	9
Mass gain and stopover dynamics among migrating songbirds are linked to seasonal, environmental, and life-history effects	8
Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea)	8
Lesser Woodcreepers excavate nest cavities in trees	8
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds	8
Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis	7
Beaver activity and red squirrel presence predict bird assemblages in boreal Canada	7
A neuroendocrine perspective on the origin and evolution of cooperative breeding	7
Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird, Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)	7
Early nest initiation and vegetation density enhance nest survival in Wild Turkeys	7
Unmasking hidden genetic, vocal, and size variation in the Masked Flowerpiercer along the Andes supports two species separated by Northern Peruvian Low	7
Temperature and vegetation complexity structure mixed-species flocks along a gradient of elevation in the tropical Andes	7
Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity	7
Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets	7
Spring migration strategies of Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) necessitate individual time-energy trade-offs despite wintering origins or migratory destinations	6
A late Pleistocene nest cave of Gymnogyps californianus (California Condor) in Texas: New radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses	6
Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape	6
Morphometric variation and deteriorating food availability both explain seasonally declining reproductive success of Dicrurus hottentottus (Hair-crested Drongo)	6
Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)	6
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population	6
Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 7th edition	6
Singing on the nest is a widespread behavior in incubating Northern Mockingbirds and increases probability of nest predation	6
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)	5
Social behavior among nocturnally migrating birds revealed by automated moonwatching	5
Prey selection by Chordeiles minor (Common Nighthawk) does not reflect differences in prey availability between breeding and nonbreeding grounds	5
The Sensory Ecology of Birds	5
Plumage polymorphism in raptors	5
The Big Boom Theory: The Common Nighthawk wing-boom display delineates exclusive nesting territories	5
Macroevolution of body extremities reveals an integrated phenotypic response of coloration and morphology to temperature in a large clade of Neotropical passerines (Furnariida)	5
Weather events influence survival and recruitment of Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit) in the Caribbean	5
The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat	4
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	4
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene	4
Modeling phenological reaction norms over an elevational gradient reveals contrasting strategies of Dusky Flycatchers and Mountain Chickadees in response to early-season temperatures	4
DNA metabarcoding reveals broadly overlapping diets in three sympatric North American hummingbirds	4
Evaluating the impacts of metabarcoding primer selection on DNA characterization of diet in an aerial insectivore, the Purple Martin	4
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	4
Genomic and acoustic differences separate Lilian’s Meadowlark (Sturnella magna lilianae) from Eastern (S. magna) and Western (S. neglecta) meadowlarks	4
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West	4
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow	4
Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes	4
Sexual dichromatism may not be a good index of sexual or natural selection in the blue cardinalids (Aves: Passeriformes)	4
Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)	3
Experimental evidence that social information affects habitat selection in Marbled Murrelets	3
Correction to: The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	3
2023 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Awards to Lisa Sorenson and Stanley Senner	3
Satellite tracking of American Woodcock reveals a gradient of migration strategies	3

Genetic data and niche differences suggest that disjunct populations ofDiglossa brunneiventrisare not sister lineages	3
Performance of a points-based scoring system for assessing species limits in birds	3
James Denis Summers-Smith, 1920–2020	3
When to depart from a stopover site? Time since arrival matters more than current weather conditions	3
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–2023	3
The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	3
Phylogenetic analyses support flush-pursuit foraging and flocking behaviors as evolutionary drivers of flash plumage signals in North American passerines	3
2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf	3
DNA metabarcoding reveals dietary divergence among sympatric swallows and flycatchers	3
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of geographic variation in songs of a Neotropical suboscine bird: The Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant (Hemitriccus diops, Rhynchocyclidae)	2
How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird	2
Experimentally reduced feather microbial loads improve reproductive performance in captive Zebra Finches	2
Richard L. Zusi, 1930–2024	2
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry	2
Extensions and limitations of MacArthur (1958): A review of ecological and evolutionary approaches to competition and diet in the New World wood warblers (Parulidae)	2
Sixty-second Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’sCheck-list of North American Birds	2
Sulfur isotopic discrimination factors differ among avian tissues and diets: Insights from a case study in Gentoo Penguins	2
2024 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez	2
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)	2
The Biology of Molt in Birds	2
Corrigendum to: Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) can identify individual females by their fee-bee songs	2
Landscape cover type, not social dominance, is associated with the winter movement patterns of Snowy Owls in temperate areas	2
Integrative taxonomy and geographic sampling underlie successful species delimitation	2
It is good to be average: Ecological correlates of breeding phenology in an Arctic seabird, Alle alle (Dovekie)	2
Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds	2
Climate change outpaces adaptive potential via hybridization in nesting female Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows	2
Beyond tracking: Advancing animal ecology through the longitudinal sampling of individuals	2
2023 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Cristina Yumi Miyaki and Maren Vitousek	2
Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	2
Professional ethics survey identifies strengths and areas for improvement in the American Ornithological Society	2
The Great Rift Valley is a more pronounced biogeographic barrier than the Blue Nile Valley for six Ethiopian Highland passerines in the eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot	2
DNA metabarcoding reveals broad woodpecker diets in fire-maintained forests	2
Geographically consistent hybridization dynamics between the Black-crested and Tufted titmouse with evidence of hybrid zone expansion	1
Corrigendum to: Cryptic speciation in the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)	1
2021 AOS Kessel Fellowship for Ornithological Research to Michelle Roper	1
Updating splits, lumps, and shuffles: Reconciling GenBank names with standardized avian taxonomies	1
Female and male plumage brightness is positively correlated among populations of the dichromatic Variable Seedeater	1
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2024 Ornithology, Volume 141	1
Vulnerable Neotropical migratory songbird demonstrates flexibility in space use in response to rainfall change	1
Community-sourced sightings of atypical birds can be used to understand the evolution of plumage color and pattern	1
Correction to: The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness	1
Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren	1
Essential Ornithology	1
Richard W. (Dick) Coles, 1940–2022	1
The high-energy aerial insectivore lifestyle of swallows does not produce clear thermogenic side effects	1
Birds of Maine	1
Corrigendum to: Phylogeny based on ultra-conserved elements clarifies the evolution of rails and allies (Ralloidea) and is the basis for a revised classification	1
Blue-footed Boobies: Sibling Conflict and Sexual Infidelity on a Tropical Island	1
Richard Evan Johnson, 1936–2021	1
Millicent Sigler Ficken, 1933–2020	1
Flight paths: how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration	1
Morphology, vocalizations, and mitochondrial DNA suggest that the Graceful Prinia is two species	1
Barn Swallows in East Asia show strong tolerance against nest mites	1
Irruptive fall migrations are linked to elevated breeding abundance but are not associated with body condition or stopover duration in Northern Saw-whet Owls	1
The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) genoscape: implications for monitoring, management, and subspecies boundaries	1
An overview of speciation and species limits in birds	1
Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	1
A new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western Bolivia and southern Peru	1
C. Stuart Houston, 1927–2021	1
Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation	1
High within-clutch repeatability of eggshell phenotype in Barn Swallows despite less maculated last-laid eggs	1
Haemosporidian infection prevalence varies temporally and spatially and Leucocytozoon infections are male biased in Song Sparrows	1
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	1
Asymmetric song recognition does not influence gene flow in an emergent songbird hybrid zone	1
All the Birds of the World	1
Systematics and conservation of an endemic radiation ofAccipiterhawks in the Caribbean islands	1
Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	1
Ecological drivers of coloniality in Oreotrochilus chimborazo chimborazo (Chimborazo Hillstar), a hummingbird endemic to the High Andes of Ecuador	1
Sociality and morphology differentiate niches of 13 sympatric Amazonian woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae)	1
Nestling Savannah Sparrows and Tree Swallows differ in their sensitivity to weather	1
A habitat-based approach to determining the effects of drought on aridland bird communities	1
Phylogeny based on ultra-conserved elements clarifies the evolution of rails and allies (Ralloidea) and is the basis for a revised classification	1
Avian taxonomy in turmoil: The 7-point rule is poorly reproducible and may overlook substantial cryptic diversity	1
Application of a global age-coding system (“WRP”), based on molts and plumages, for use in demographic and other studies of birds	1
2022 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Roxana Torres and Amanda Rodewald	1
Endogenous biomarkers reveal diet partitioning among three sympatric species of swallows	1
Faster growth and larger size at crèche onset are associated with higher offspring survival in Adélie Penguins	1
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	1