OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ornithology is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide	52
Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity	36
2022 AOS Marion Jenkinson Service Award to Erin Morrison	35
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population	25
Divergence in mating signals predicts behavioral responses among three closely related species of wrens in the genus Campylorhynchus	22
Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis	22
Beak deformities in Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk) signal possible emergence of avian keratin disorder among raptors	16
How Veeries vary: Whole genome sequencing resolves genetic structure in a long-distance migratory bird	16
2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf	15
No apparent trade-off between the quality of nest-grown feathers and time spent in the nest in an aerial insectivore, the Tree Swallow	14
Modeling phenological reaction norms over an elevational gradient reveals contrasting strategies of Dusky Flycatchers and Mountain Chickadees in response to early-season temperatures	14
It is good to be average: Ecological correlates of breeding phenology in an Arctic seabird, Alle alle (Dovekie)	13
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	13
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)	13
Gerald Francis Shields, 1943–2023	12
Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene	12
The biotic and abiotic drivers of timing of breeding and the consequences of breeding early in a changing world	11
DNA metabarcoding reveals broadly overlapping diets in three sympatric North American hummingbirds	11
Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry	10
Vulnerable Neotropical migratory songbird demonstrates flexibility in space use in response to rainfall change	9
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2024 Ornithology, Volume 141	9
Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	9
Professional ethics survey identifies strengths and areas for improvement in the American Ornithological Society	8
Endogenous biomarkers reveal diet partitioning among three sympatric species of swallows	8
Corrigendum to: Distinctive mitogenomic lineages within populations of White-tailed Eagles	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	7
Keith A. Hobson, 1954–2024	7
Barn Swallows in East Asia show strong tolerance against nest mites	7
Flight paths: how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration	7
2024 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to Jordan Karubian	7
When predators get more than they bargained for: Naïve attacks on snakes by hawks, falcons, and owls	6
Leonard Alan Freed, 1947–2021	6
Extended molt phenology models improve inferences about molt duration and timing	6
Local food availability and nonbreeding carry-over effects affect breeding propensity and success of a tundra-nesting predator, the Long-tailed Jaeger	6
Use of visual display in dark, cluttered environments	6
Experimental evidence of a consistent commensal relationship between avian hosts and feather mites of differing host specificities	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
Physiological condition reflects polymorphism at the toll-like receptors in a colonial waterbird	6
Relative forelimb–hindlimb investment is associated with flight style, foraging strategy, and nestling period, but not nest type	6
Sex, body size, and winter weather explain migration strategies in a partial migrant population of American Kestrels	6
Migratory routing and departure decisions of Porzana carolina (Sora): New insights from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System	5
Mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellites reveal population genetic structure of the range-restricted hummingbirdPhaeoptila sordidain the Balsas Basin	5
Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs: Forays in Postmodern Paleontology	5
Machine learning reveals that climate, geography, and cultural drift all predict bird song variation in coastal Zonotrichia leucophrys	5
Walter J. Bock, 1933–2022	5
Resource allocation underlies parental decision-making during incubation in the Manx Shearwater	5
Visual predators and diurnal nest predation provide support for the Skutch Hypothesis and explain evolved incubation behaviors in a montane tropical bird community	5
Finding W. H. Hudson: The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds	5
Extensive variation in feather ornaments of Whiskered Auklets in the Aleutian Islands reflects age, sex, condition, and geography	5
Sixty-sixth supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	4
Punctuated evolution of bill morphology in the largest family of songbirds (Thraupidae)	4
100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	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
Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches	4
Irruptive fall migrations are linked to elevated breeding abundance but are not associated with body condition or stopover duration in Northern Saw-whet Owls	4
Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes	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
Habitat connectivity, gene flow, and population genetic structure in a Neotropical understory insectivore, the Rufous-and-white Wren	4
Sulfur isotopic discrimination factors differ among avian tissues and diets: Insights from a case study in Gentoo Penguins	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
Innovative microphone transmitter reveals differences in acoustic structure between broadcast and whisper songs of Myadestes obscurus (ʻŌmaʻo)	3
No evidence that endohelminth parasites cause selection against hybrid orioles across the Baltimore–Bullock’s Oriole hybrid zone	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
Thank You to the Reviewers of the 2022 Ornithology, Volume 139	3
Richard L. Zusi, 1930–2024	3
100 years ago in the American Ornithologists’ Union	3
Decline in capture rates of birds in the High Andes of Ecuador suggest broad scale anthropogenic impacts to protected areas	3
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness	3
Richard W. (Dick) Coles, 1940–2022	3
Considerations for fitting occupancy models to data from eBird and similar volunteer-collected data	3
Wood hardness drives nest-site selection in woodpeckers of the humid Chaco	3
Correction to: An overview of the drivers of performance in nonbreeding Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbirds	3

Did complex song and dance coevolve with brain size in the birds-of-paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae)?	3
Sixty-fourth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds	3
Geographically consistent hybridization dynamics between the Black-crested and Tufted titmouse with evidence of hybrid zone expansion	3
Corrigendum to: Cryptic speciation in the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)	3
Genomic variation in the Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) suggests divergence in a disjunct Atlantic Coastal Plain population (S. v. waynei)	3
A brief history of English bird names and the American Ornithologists’ Union (now American Ornithological Society)	3
Similar parasite communities but dissimilar infection patterns in two closely related chickadee species	3