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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison	57
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population	43
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide	35
Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis	26
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow	23
It is good to be average: Ecological correlates of breeding phenology in an Arctic seabird, Alle alle (Dovekie)	22
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	18
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)	18
2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf	17
Beak deformities in Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk) signal possible emergence of avian keratin disorder among raptors	16
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene	15
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–2023	14
The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	13
Divergence in mating signals predicts behavioral responses among three closely related species of wrens in the genus Campylorhynchus	13
How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird	12
Barn Swallows in East Asia show strong tolerance against nest mites	11
DNA metabarcoding reveals broadly overlapping diets in three sympatric North American hummingbirds	11
Professional ethics survey identifies strengths and areas for improvement in the American Ornithological Society	10
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	10
Flight paths: how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration	10
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry	9
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2024 Ornithology, Volume 141	9
Endogenous biomarkers reveal diet partitioning among three sympatric species of swallows	8
Experimentally reduced feather microbial loads improve reproductive performance in captive Zebra Finches	8
Genotype predicts quantitative song variety in a chickadee hybrid zone despite limited sampling	8

Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	8
Leonard Alan Freed, 1947–2021	7
Vulnerable Neotropical migratory songbird demonstrates flexibility in space use in response to rainfall change	7
Keith A. Hobson, 1954–2024	7
Relative forelimb–hindlimb investment is associated with flight style, foraging strategy, and nestling period, but not nest type	7
2024 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to Jordan Karubian	7
Migratory routing and departure decisions of Porzana carolina (Sora): New insights from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System	6
Experimental evidence of a consistent commensal relationship between avian hosts and feather mites of differing host specificities	6
Use of visual display in dark, cluttered environments	6
Syntopic diet divergence inferred from metabarcoding in two parulid warblers: Setophaga virens (Black-throated Green Warbler) and	6
Local food availability and nonbreeding carry-over effects affect breeding propensity and success of a tundra-nesting predator, the Long-tailed Jaeger	6
Sex, body size, and winter weather explain migration strategies in a partial migrant population of American Kestrels	6
Extended molt phenology models improve inferences about molt duration and timing	6
When predators get more than they bargained for: Naïve attacks on snakes by hawks, falcons, and owls	6
Corrigendum to: Differences in the use of surface water resources by desert birds are revealed using isotopic tracers	6
Evidence of differing staging strategies between adult and juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers highlights the importance of small staging sites in Atlantic Canada	6
Mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellites reveal population genetic structure of the range-restricted hummingbirdPhaeoptila sordidain the Balsas Basin	5
Extensive variation in feather ornaments of Whiskered Auklets in the Aleutian Islands reflects age, sex, condition, and geography	5
Genetic analysis of Cistothorus palustris (Marsh Wren) across a broad transition zone in southern Saskatchewan reveals deep divergence and little hybridization between two cultural phenotypes	5
Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs: Forays in Postmodern Paleontology	5
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren	4
Walter J. Bock, 1933–2022	4
Sixty-sixth supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	4
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community	4
Sulfur isotopic discrimination factors differ among avian tissues and diets: Insights from a case study in Gentoo Penguins	4
Geographically consistent hybridization dynamics between the Black-crested and Tufted titmouse with evidence of hybrid zone expansion	4
Resource allocation underlies parental decision-making during incubation in the Manx Shearwater	4
Macroevolution of body extremities reveals an integrated phenotypic response of coloration and morphology to temperature in a large clade of Neotropical passerines (Furnariida)	4
Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds	4
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)	4
Extensions and limitations of MacArthur (1958): A review of ecological and evolutionary approaches to competition and diet in the New World wood warblers (Parulidae)	4
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches	4
Machine learning reveals that climate, geography, and cultural drift all predict bird song variation in coastal Zonotrichia leucophrys	4
Wintering closer to breeding grounds comes at a cost in an Arctic-specialized songbird, Plectrophenax nivalis (Snow Bunting)	4
Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes	4
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	4
Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes	4
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness	3
The adaptive significance of off-lek sociality in birds: A synthetic review, with evidence for the reproductive benefits hypothesis in Long-wattled Umbrellabirds	3
No evidence that endohelminth parasites cause selection against hybrid orioles across the Baltimore–Bullock’s Oriole hybrid zone	3
Richard L. Zusi, 1930–2024	3
Corrigendum to: Cryptic speciation in the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)	3
A brief history of English bird names and the American Ornithologists’ Union (now American Ornithological Society)	3
Did complex song and dance coevolve with brain size in the birds-of-paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae)?	3
Similar parasite communities but dissimilar infection patterns in two closely related chickadee species	3
Wood hardness drives nest-site selection in woodpeckers of the humid Chaco	3
Richard W. (Dick) Coles, 1940–2022	3
Considerations for fitting occupancy models to data from eBird and similar volunteer-collected data	3
Irruptive fall migrations are linked to elevated breeding abundance but are not associated with body condition or stopover duration in Northern Saw-whet Owls	3
100 years ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	3

Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2022 Ornithology, Volume 139	3
Sixty-fourth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	3
Genomic variation in the Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) suggests divergence in a disjunct Atlantic Coastal Plain population (S. v. waynei)	3
Correction to: An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	3
Innovative microphone transmitter reveals differences in acoustic structure between broadcast and whisper songs of Myadestes obscurus (ʻŌmaʻo)	3
Decline in capture rates of birds in the High Andes of Ecuador suggests broad-scale anthropogenic impacts to protected areas	3
Birds at Rest: The Behavior and Ecology of Avian Sleep	3
Blue-footed Boobies: Sibling Conflict and Sexual Infidelity on a Tropical Island	2
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds	2
Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird, Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel)	2
Sex- and age-related differences in post-breeding molt phenology are phylogenetically and ecologically widespread in passerines	2
Plumage polymorphism in raptors	2
Haemosporidian infection prevalence varies temporally and spatially and Leucocytozoon infections are male biased in Song Sparrows	2
Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	2
Biparentally incubating Aegithalos concinnus (Black-throated Tit) provide a more stable nest thermal environment than uniparentally incubating A. glaucogularis (Silver-throated Tit)	2
The need for proper archiving and referencing of sound recordings in taxonomic studies of birds	2
Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches	2
David F. DeSante, 1942–2022	2
Differences in weather conditions associated with the onset of pre-breeding migration of Scolopax rusticola (Eurasian Woodcock) and Gallinago gallinago (Common Snipe)	2
Ben F. King, 1937–2024	2
Climate change outpaces adaptive potential via hybridization in nesting female Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows	2
Gradual transitions in genetics and songs between coastal and inland populations of Setophaga townsendi	2
Lesser Woodcreepers excavate nest cavities in trees	2
Correction to: The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	2
Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology	2
Genome-wide data reveal paraphyly in the sand plover complex (Charadrius mongolus/leschenaultii)	2
Beaver activity and red squirrel presence predict bird assemblages in boreal Canada	2
Asymmetric song recognition does not influence gene flow in an emergent songbird hybrid zone	2
Correction: Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	1
Genomic data reveals mixed support for the current subspecies designations in the Megascops asio (Eastern Screech-Owl)	1
Sturkie’s Avian Physiology, 7th edition	1
2022 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to Roxana Torres and Amanda Rodewald	1
Studying individual-level interactions can transform our understanding of avian mixed-species flocks	1
Preston’s universal formula for avian egg shape	1
The Pacific as the world’s greatest theater of bird migration: Extreme flights spark questions about physiological capabilities, behavior, and the evolution of migratory pathways	1
Incubation period length varies with temperature, female age, and clutch size in Protonotaria citrea (Prothonotary Warbler)	1
Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi Flyway	1
Unmasking hidden genetic, vocal, and size variation in the Masked Flowerpiercer along the Andes supports two species separated by Northern Peruvian Low	1
The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat	1
Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)	1
Genetic analysis provides insight into the mating system of Meleagris gallopavo (Wild Turkey) and reveals frequent extra-pair paternity	1
Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	1
Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Passerculus sandwichensis (Savannah Sparrow)	1
Vagrancy in Birds	1
Whether Darwin’s mystery of mysteries is actually mysterious depends on the species concept: A bird’s eye review	1
When do tropical birds breed? The case of Colombian species assemblages	1
Breeding site departure and post-departure movement strategy in Vireo olivaceus (Red-eyed Vireo)	1
Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia	1
High within-clutch repeatability of eggshell phenotype in Barn Swallows despite less maculated last-laid eggs	1
Temporal stability in songs across the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) may be due to learning fidelity and transmission biases	1
2024 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez	1
Feather growth rate and hormone deposition vary with elevation but not reproductive costs in resident Mountain Chickadees	1
Courtship behavior of a secretive forest tinamou, Tinamus major (Great Tinamou)	1
Apparent annual survival of adult Vermivora chrysoptera (Golden-winged Warbler) does not differ by sex or region	1
Mass gain and stopover dynamics among migrating songbirds are linked to seasonal, environmental, and life-history effects	1
DNA metabarcoding reveals rangewide variation in aquatic diet of a riparian avian insectivore, the Prothonotary Warbler	1
Dale Allen Zimmerman, 1928–2021	1
Divergence in vocalizations indicates cryptic speciation in Camptostoma tyrannulets	1
A framework of hypotheses for studying post-breeding ecology and trade-offs in migratory birds	1
Morphometric variation and deteriorating food availability both explain seasonally declining reproductive success of Dicrurus hottentottus (Hair-crested Drongo)	1
2023 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart	1
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2023 Ornithology, Volume 140	1
Female and male plumage brightness is positively correlated among populations of the dichromatic Variable Seedeater	1
Winter range shifts and their associations with species traits are heterogeneous in eastern North American birds	1
Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds	1
Neighbors matter: Vocal variation in Gentoo Penguins depends on the species composition of their colony	1
Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)	1
Mixed-species flocking is associated with low arthropod detectability and increased foraging efficiency by Yungas forest birds in Argentina	1
Contact calls of island Brown-throated Parakeets exhibit both character and variance shifts compared to calls of their mainland relatives	1
Cloacal microbial diversity is associated with competitive phenotypes in socially polyandrous jacanas	1
Genomic and geographic diversification of a “great-speciator” (Rhipidura rufifrons)	1
High variability of migration strategies in a reestablished Cygnus buccinator (Trumpeter Swan) population	1
Melospiza melodia (Song Sparrow) bill size is primarily shaped by thermoregulation on the California Channel Islands	1
An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	1
Spring migration strategies of Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) necessitate individual time-energy trade-offs despite wintering origins or migratory destinations	1
Sociality and morphology differentiate niches of 13 sympatric Amazonian woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae)	1