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 2021-11-01 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
Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco)	18
Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location	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
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
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
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
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
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