Ornithological Applications

Article	Citations
Differential seasonal avoidance of anthropogenic features and woody vegetation by Lesser Prairie-Chickens	73
Breeding Sternula antillarum (Least Terns) disturbance distances and duration of escape behaviors: Pedestrians necessitate larger conservation buffers than do passing vehicles	39
Brood parasitism of Hooded Warblers by Brown-headed Cowbirds: Severe impact on individual nests but modest consequences for seasonal fecundity and conservation	18
Songbird annual productivity declines with increasing soil lead contamination around nests	17
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds	16
Birds of Rhode Island: Seasonal Distribution and Ecological History	15
Modeling intra-observer variation in species detections reveals diverse patterns of change over time in participatory scientists	14
Land cover, elevation, and precipitation predict distribution and hotspots of three bird species of concern in boreal Alaska	13
A Wing and A Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds	12
Evaluation of distance estimation by observers with point counts and distance-sampling methodology: A field test	12
Fine-scale forest structure, not management regime, drives occupancy of a declining songbird, the Olive-sided Flycatcher, in the core of its range	12
The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, ecology, and conservation	12
Similar post-fledging behavior observed in wild and reintroduced juvenile Bonelli’s Eagle in two Mediterranean islands	12
Empirical and simulation data reveal a lack of avoidance of wind turbines by Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture)	11
Beach recreationists perceive a lack of knowledge about shorebirds’ needs as a constraint to walking around shorebird flocks	10
Additive and interactive effects of wildfire and Corvus corax (Common Raven) density on Centrocercus urophasianus	9
Prevalence and diversity of malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium) in the imperiled Saltmarsh Sparrow are greater at northern sites	8
2024 AOS Early Professional Awards to Sheela P. Turbek, Jessie L. Williamson, and Gavin M. Jones	8
Urbanization and temperature interactively shape laying dates, food abundance, and diet, but have a limited impact on fledging success of Hirundo rustica	8
A practical decision tool for marine bird mortality assessments	8
Bird–building collisions increase with weather conditions that favor nocturnal migration and with inclement and changing weather	8
Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California	8
Climate change is predicted to reduce sympatry among North American wood-warblers	8
Natal forest fragment size does not predict fledgling, pre-migration or apparent annual survival in Wood Thrushes	7
Temporarily closing roads to motorized vehicles may benefit some sensitive bird species in a peri-urban park	7

Causes of nest failure vary with water depth, nesting substrate, and adverse weather in the endangered wetland-breeding Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus (Everglade Snail Kite)	6
Turkey Vulture survival is reduced in areas of greater road density	6
Future sea-level rise in northwest Mexico is projected to decrease the distribution and habitat quality of the endangered Calidris canutus roselaari (Red Knot)	6
Wetter and more forested nonbreeding areas result in later departures but a faster spring migration in Vermivora chrysoptera (Golden-winged Warbler)	6
Low Kirtland’s Warbler fledgling survival in Wisconsin plantations relative to Michigan plantations	6
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2023 Ornithological Applications, volume 125	6
Alaska’s climate sensitive Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta supports seven million Arctic-breeding shorebirds, including the majority of six North American populations	6
Contributions of environmental conditions and sound characteristics to differences in perceptibility: Recommendations for passive acoustic monitoring	6
Dispersal patterns of the endangered Crested Ibis suggest high breeding densities drive natal dispersal	6
The spatiotemporal properties of artificial feeding schemes influence the post-fledging movement of Egyptian Vultures	5
Correction to: Meta-replication reveals nonstationarity in multi-scale habitat selection of Mexican Spotted Owl	5
Spatial and temporal population genomics of Phoenicopterus ruber (American Flamingo)	5
Despite regional variation, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus (Pinyon Jay) densities generally increase with local pinyon–juniper cover and heterogeneous ground cover	5
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) has been replacing Anas rubripes (American Black Duck) in human-altered landscapes in Ontario, 1996 to 2019	5
Preferred nesting habitat of the slow-breeding Superb Lyrebird is rare and was disproportionately impacted by Australia’s “Black Summer” megafires (2019–2020) within a World Heritage Area	5
Shrub cover and height determine the density of Vireo atricapilla (Black-capped Vireo) at two national wildlife refuges	5
Extreme temperatures impede the release success of captive-bred avian scavengers	5
Reintroduced Oriental Stork survival differed by mitochondrial DNA haplotype	5
2025 AOS Early Professional Awards to Teresa Pegan, Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, and Maria Stager	5
Secondary Amazon rainforest partially recovers tree cavities suitable for nesting birds in 18–34 years	5
Rapid population decline in McKay’s Bunting, an Alaskan endemic, highlights the species’ current status relative to international standards for vulnerable species	5
Citizen science generates reliable migration chronologies to supplement professional surveys for waterfowl habitat management	5
High inter-population connectivity and occasional gene flow between subspecies improves recovery potential for the endangered Least Bell’s Vireo	4
Same view through a different lens: Comparing population trends for North American birds using eBird and the Breeding Bird Survey	4
Light-level geolocators and species distribution modeling reveal that the Vulnerable Sporophila cinnamomea (Chestnut Seedeater) migrates through the Paraná-Paraguay system to Central Brazil	4
Bias in density estimates from avian point-count surveys: Prospects for post-hoc corrections using calibration data	4
Loon Lessons: Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver	4
Accounting for seasonal patterns in bird availability prevents biased population trend estimates with advancing spring phenology	4
Mismatch between strong nest-site selection and low survival of nests and broods for Scolopax minor (American Woodcock) and its implications for conservation	4
Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird , by Mike Stark	4
Insectivore diet and abundance determine the contribution of bird species to services and disservices in an agricultural ecosystem	4
Weak genetic structure, shared nonbreeding areas, and extensive movement in a declining waterbird	4
Nonbreeding distributions of four declining Nearctic–Neotropical migrants are predicted to contract under future climate and socioeconomic scenarios	4
Under cover of darkness: Refuge from artificial light at night may mitigate risks to stranded seabirds	4
Abundance and distribution of birds from comprehensive surveys of the Canadian Arctic, 1994–2018	4
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2022 Ornithological Applications, volume 124	4
Caught out in the cold: Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) survival decreased during an extreme climatic event	4
Is green the new black? Black-backed Woodpecker vital rates do not differ between unburned and burned forests within a pyrodiverse landscape	3
Extreme weather has variable effects on reproductive success of grassland songbirds at the northern extent of their range	3
Lipid metabolites index habitat quality for Canvasbacks on stopover areas during spring migration	3
Dual-use habitats of Contopus cooperi (Olive-sided Flycatcher): Important spring stopovers for Alaskan populations coincide with shrinking areas of breed	3
The positive influence of wetlands on reproductive success and body mass in an aerial insectivore is more pronounced in intensively cropped agroecosystems	3
Yellowstone’s Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World’s First National Park	3
Cellular network measurements can unravel spatiotemporal properties of bird movement to enhance basic and applied knowledge globally	3
Journeys with Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguins	3
Despite short-lived changes, COVID-19 pandemic had minimal large-scale impact on citizen science participation in India	3
Decolonizing bird knowledge: More-than-Western bird–human relations	3
The illegal trade of wild birds in a social network: A call for action from Argentina	3
Factors influencing spatial and temporal patterns of Lanius ludovicianus (Loggerhead Shrike) occupancy at a grassland-sagebrush ecotone	3
Positive correlation between Ammospiza caudacuta (Saltmarsh Sparrow) capture and productivity supports use of a novel rapid assessment monitoring protocol	3

Urbanization is associated with innate immune functions in adult, but not nestling Turdus merula (Eurasian Blackbird)	3
Spatially explicit Bayesian hierarchical models improve estimates of avian population status and trends	3
Stable occupancy of conservation-priority birds amid community shifts across 16 years on Iowa wetland easements	2
Euphagus carolinus (Rusty Blackbird) from two different breeding populations in northeastern North America exhibit chain migration yet use the same region for stopover	2
Abundance models of endemic birds of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern South America, suggest small population sizes and dependence on montane elevations	2
Wetland characteristics influence dabbling duckling habitat use and movements	2
Rallus elegans (King Rail) occupancy is stable, but habitat is in short supply in the Arkansas Delta	2
Woody plant encroachment reduces density of most grassland specialists in a desert grassland but has limited influence on nest survival	2
Optimizing passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for biodiversity studies: Using species–area relationship (SAR) to predict species richness	2
Where do Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture) feed? Combining biologging with socioeconomic analysis can guide sustainable ecotourism development	2
Satellite imagery can predict bird species occupancy and inform multispecies management in pine savannas	2
2024 AOS Conservation Practitioner Award to Nestor Fariña and Olga Esther Villaba	2
2022 AOS Peter R. Stettenheim Service Award to Melinda Pruett-Jones	2
Ecosystem engineers show variable impacts on habitat availability for cavity nesters in South American temperate forests	2
Puffins, petrels, and places: Understanding human perceptions to prevent seabird mortality due to light pollution	2
Efficiency in conservation: Comparable genetic and population data from one and two noninvasive sampling rounds in Tetrao urogallus (Western Capercaillie)	2
Correction to: Meta-replication reveals nonstationarity in multi-scale habitat selection of Mexican Spotted Owl	2
Increasing density from population recovery does not explain elevated partial brood loss in a threatened cooperative breeder	2
Survival estimates and hunter outreach are priorities for the collaborative harvest management of Emperor Goose in Alaska	2
Accelerating declines of North America’s shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action	2
Conservation implications of wide-ranging year-round movement and distribution of Aleutian Island breeding Aethia cristatella (Crested Auklets)	2
Ecology and conservation of cavity-nesting birds in the Neotropics: Recent advances, future directions, and contributions to ornithology	2
Drastic reduction of the population distribution of White Storks predicted in absence of landfills	2
Leveraging eBird data products to inform regional bird conservation priorities and objectives	2
Characterizing juvenile dispersal dynamics of invasive Barred Owls: Implications for management	2
White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain	2
Water depth, position within the nesting colony, and nearest neighbor density affect nest survival in Aechmophorus occidentalis (Western Grebe)	2
Global positioning system (GPS) and platform transmitter terminal (PTT) tags reveal fine-scale migratory movements of small birds: A review highlights further opportunities for hypothesis-driven resea	2
Informative priors can account for location uncertainty in stop-level analyses of the North American Breeding Bird Survey, allowing fine-scale ecological analyses	2
Spatial survival analysis accounts for female-biased breeding dispersal and provides realistic estimates of true annual survival in migratory warblers	2
A Connecticut Yankee goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate	2
Inclement weather interacts with agricultural intensity at landscape scales to reduce reproductive success in an at-risk aerial insectivore	2
Citizen science photographs indicate different timing and location use of migrating adult and juvenile Whimbrels	2
Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France	2
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2024 Ornithological Applications, volume 126	2
2022 AOS Early Professional Awards to Stepfanie M. Aguillon, Benjamin Freeman, and Allison Shultz	2
Two listeners detect slightly more birds than a single listener when interpreting acoustic recordings	2
The once-invisible legacy of Elizabeth L. Kerr, a naturalist in the early 20th century, and her contributions to Colombian ornithology	1
Duckling survival increased with availability of flooded wetland habitat and decreased with salinity concentrations in a brackish marsh	1
Climate change modeling indicates extensive range contractions for a scarce southern African endemic and minimal protected area network within its future climatically suitable range	1
Surrounding landscape, habitat and hybridization dynamics drive population structure and genetic diversity in the Saltmarsh Sparrow	1
Combining feather δ2H, mist netting, and eBird data to investigate post-breeding migration of neotropical passerines on the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba	1
Migratory home-range size, daily displacement and distribution of the Calidris canutus rufa (Red Knot) at two critical stopovers in Brazil	1
Correction to: “Bonelli’s Eagle electrocution risk in Israel can be reduced by 80% by insulating only 4% of the pylons”	1
Assessing bird diversity in Neotropical rainforests: A comparative study of camera traps and mist nets reveals complementary sampling approaches	1
Species-specific ecological traits, phylogeny, and geography underpin vulnerability to population declines for North American birds	1
Survival of juvenile Florida Scrub-Jays is positively correlated with month and negatively correlated with male breeder death	1
Passive acoustic monitoring captures large-scale Dryocopus pileatus (Pileated Woodpecker) occupancy patterns in the Pacific Northwest, USA	1
Tree cavity density is a limiting factor for a secondary cavity nester in second-growth Andean temperate rainforests	1
Rangewide connectivity and migration ecology in Limnothlypis swainsonii (Swainson’s Warbler) uncovered with barometric geolocators	1
2023 AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award to Vicki Friesen	1
2023 AOS Harry R. Painton Award to Natália Stefanini Da Silveira and Honorable Mentions to Rachael W. Herman and Sarah P. Saunders	1
Avoidance of offshore wind farms by Sandwich Terns increases with turbine density	1
Large trees and forest heterogeneity facilitate prey capture by California Spotted Owls	1
Juvenile Northern Spotted Owls with higher mass and intermediate levels of corticosterone have greater long-term survival	1
Scale-specific habitat selection by Buteo plagiatus (Gray Hawk) across life stages at the northeastern edge of its range	1
Understanding Picoides articus (Black-backed Woodpecker) occupancy in fire-suppressed forests of the northern Blue Mountains, USA	1
Single bin QPAD (SQPAD) approach for robust analysis of point-count data with detection error	1
Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future	1
Message in A Bottle: Ocean Dispatches From A Seabird Biologist	1
Improving the language of migratory bird science in North America	1
Analysis of mixtures of birds and insects in weather radar profile data	1
Demographic declines over time and variable responses of breeding bird populations to human footprint in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada	1
Open spaces and arthropod abundance are important foraging habitat components for Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus (Pinyon Jay) in south-central New Mexico	1
Tall, heterogeneous forests improve prey capture, delivery to nestlings, and reproductive success for Spotted Owls in southern California	1
Addressing widespread detection heterogeneity in avian occupancy modeling using passive acoustic surveys	1
Upland Sandpipers select for later time since fire and experience high nest survival in grasslands managed with patch-burn grazing	1
Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide	1
Widespread bird species show idiosyncratic responses in residual body mass to selective logging and edge effects in the Colombian Western Andes	1
Landscape changes and declines in Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle) territory occupancy in southwestern Idaho	1
2025 AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award to Scott K. Robinson	1
Sixty-years of community-science data suggest earlier fall migration and short-stopping of waterfowl in North America	1
Fine-scale habitat uses and activity budgets of wintering Morus bassanus (Northern Gannet) in an anthropogenic seascape	1
Small translocations of endangered Gallinula galeata sandvicensis (Hawaiian Common Gallinule) may be sufficient to generate a viable reintroduced population	1
Public engagement at North American bird banding stations: Widespread prevalence with emerging evidence of knowledge- and belief-based outcome considerations	1
Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher’s Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration	1
Shadow-boxing: Major gaps to knock out in bird–window interaction research	1
Nesting in urban areas affects Falco sparverius (American Kestrel) home range size and adult female health	1
A tropical paradise for all? Nest-site selection shifts by an endemic Neotropical woodpecker associated with human settlements	1
Disrupted natal habitat imprinting triggers long-distance dispersal in captive-bred eagles	1

Edge effects reduce persistence but not colonization in a declining Setophaga virens (Black-throated Green Warbler) population in Alberta’s boreal forest	1
Identification of avian feather product origins: A case study on the tail feather products of Syrmaticus reevesii (Reeves’s Pheasant)	1
Increasing perceived predation risk through playbacks reduces Red-winged Blackbird abundance in agriculture late in the breeding season	1
Landscape influences on bird control of coffee berry borer ( Hypothenemus hampei ) damage: Insights from a coffee producing region in Honduras	1
2025 AOS Harry R. Painton award to Eric Wood	1
Evaluation of methods to estimate nocturnal bird migration activity: A comparison of radar and nocturnal flight call monitoring in the American West	1
Multimodal data help in identifying spatio-temporal patterns and habitat associations of Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle) in Finland	1
A framework for sharing power in research teams and promoting justice in scientific publication	1
Russell P. Balda, 1939–2022	1
Experimental reduction of a primary nest predator fails to decrease nest predation rates of sagebrush songbirds	1
Melanerpes cactorum (White-fronted Woodpecker) selects exotic trees with low wood density for cavity excavation in a neotropical city	1
Influence of fine-scale habitat characteristics on sage-grouse nest site selection and nest survival varies by mesic and xeric site conditions	1
Bird signs can be important for ecocultural conservation by highlighting key information networks in people–bird communities	1
2023 AOS Early Professional Awards to Glaucia Del-Rio, Carrie Branch, and Sara Lipshutz	1
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird	1
Structural complexity is a better predictor than single habitat attributes of understory bird densities in Andean temperate forests	1
Henslow’s Sparrow shows positive response to prescribed fire rotation	1
Passive acoustic monitoring indicates Barred Owls are established in northern coastal California and management intervention is warranted	1
Habitat edges influence the distribution of nest predators for Seaside Sparrows, but not nest placement or success	1
Congregations of rodent-eating birds during flood irrigation of crops exploit novel prey pulses and potentially provide pest control services	1
Fifty years of conservation under the Endangered Species act: Himantopus mexicanus knudseni (Ae‘o or Hawaiian Stilt), a conservation success story in pro	1
The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palearctic	1