OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ornithological Applications is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Are declines in insects and insectivorous birds related?	36
Passive acoustic monitoring effectively detects Northern Spotted Owls and Barred Owls over a range of forest conditions	32
Birds in fragmented Amazonian rainforest: Lessons from 40 years at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project	32
Ecosystem services provided by Neotropical birds	28
Beyond refueling: Investigating the diversity of functions of migratory stopover events	27
Integrating vulture social behavior into conservation practice	25
Combined effect of anthropogenic noise and artificial night lighting negatively affect Western Bluebird chick development	23
Applying conservation social science to study the human dimensions of Neotropical bird conservation	19
Living in a fragmented world: Birds in the Atlantic Forest	17
Tree Swallow selection for wetlands in agricultural landscapes predicted by central-place foraging theory	16
Creating benchmark measurements of tropical forest bird communities in large plots	16
Annual adult survival drives trends in Arctic-breeding shorebirds but knowledge gaps in other vital rates remain	16
Drones and deep learning produce accurate and efficient monitoring of large-scale seabird colonies	16
Habitat ecology of Nearctic–Neotropical migratory landbirds on the nonbreeding grounds	15
Lessons learned from comparing spatially explicit models and the Partners in Flight approach to estimate population sizes of boreal birds in Alberta, Canada	15
Contrasting the suitability of shade coffee agriculture and native forest as overwinter habitat for Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis) in the Colombian Andes	14
Broad-spectrum light pollution suppresses melatonin and increases West Nile virus–induced mortality in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)	14
Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future	14
Bridging the research-implementation gap in avian conservation with translational ecology	12
Urbanization is associated with increased breeding rate, but decreased breeding success, in an urban population of near-threatened African Crowned Eagles	12
Unprecedented heat mortality of Magellanic Penguins	12
Greater Sage-Grouse nest bowls buffer microclimate in a post-megafire landscape although effects on nest survival are marginal	11
A large-scale experiment demonstrates that line marking reduces power line collision mortality for large terrestrial birds, but not bustards, in the Karoo, South Africa	11
Advancing scientific knowledge and conservation of birds through inclusion of conservation social sciences in the American Ornithological Society	11
Accelerating declines of North America’s shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action	11

Integrating tracking and resight data enables unbiased inferences about migratory connectivity and winter range survival from archival tags	10
Piping Plover population increase after Hurricane Sandy mediated by immigration and reproductive output	10
Plunging floater survival causes cryptic population decline in the Common Loon	10
Experimental playback of natural gas compressor noise reduces incubation time and hatching success in two secondary cavity-nesting bird species	10
North American Breeding Bird Survey status and trend estimates to inform a wide range of conservation needs, using a flexible Bayesian hierarchical generalized additive model	9
Correcting parentage relationships in the endangered California Condor: Improving mean kinship estimates for conservation management	8
Dunlin subspecies exhibit regional segregation and high site fidelity along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway	8
Post-fledging Golden-winged Warblers require forests with multiple stand developmental stages	8
Implanted satellite transmitters affect sea duck movement patterns at short and long timescales	8
Overlap in reproductive phenology increases the likelihood of cavity nest usurpation by invasive species in a tropical city	7
Wildfire smoke affects detection of birds in Washington State	7
Vegetation characteristics and precipitation jointly influence grassland bird abundance beyond the effects of grazing management	7
Metabarcoding of stomach contents and fecal samples provide similar insights about Seaside Sparrow diet	7
Protected by dragons: Density surface modeling confirms large population of the critically endangered Yellow-crested Cockatoo on Komodo Island	7
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	7
Eastern-breeding Lesser Yellowlegs are more likely than western-breeding birds to visit areas with high shorebird hunting during southward migration	7
Fully accounting for nest age reduces bias when quantifying nest survival	7
Lack of standardization in the use of road counts for surveying raptors	7
Conspecific attraction for conservation and management of terrestrial breeding birds: Current knowledge and future research directions	6
Genetic data disagree with described subspecies ranges for Seaside Sparrows on the Atlantic coast	6
White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain	6
The Colorado River Delta and California’s Central Valley are critical regions for many migrating North American landbirds	6
Combination of targeted monitoring and Breeding Bird Survey data improves population trend estimation and species distribution modeling for the Common Nighthawk	6
Historic and contemporary use of catfish aquaculture by piscivorous birds in the Mississippi Delta	6
Breeding success in Southern Australian Little Penguins is negatively correlated with high wind speeds and sea surface temperatures	6
Breeding success of Eleonora’s Falcon in Cyprus revisited using survey techniques for cliff-nesting species	6
Diet composition of reintroduced Red-and-Green Macaws reflects gradual adaptation to life in the wild	6
Declining wintering shorebird populations at a temperate estuary in California: A 30-year perspective	6
Agricultural land in the Amazon basin supports low bird diversity and is a poor replacement for primary forest	6
How to include and recognize the work of ornithologists based in the Neotropics: Fourteen actions forOrnithological Applications,Ornithology, and other global-scope journals	5
Sea ice and local weather affect reproductive phenology of a polar seabird with breeding consequences	5
High rates of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in California Barred Owls are associated with the wildland–urban interface	5
Disturbed Amazonian forests support diminished breeding bird communities	5
Protected areas safeguard landbird populations in central coastal California: Evidence from long-term population trends	5
Do metal mines and their runoff affect plumage color? Streak-backed Orioles in Mexico show unexpected patterns	5
Climate variation drives dynamics and productivity of a subalpine breeding bird community	5
Urban rooftop-nesting Common Nighthawk chicks tolerate high temperatures by hyperthermia with relatively low rates of evaporative water loss	5
Range-wide population genetic analysis of Seaside Sparrows (Ammospiza maritima) supports at least five distinct population segments that do not align with current subspecies descriptions	5
Barn Owls select uncultivated habitats for hunting in a winegrape growing region of California	5
Cross-seasonal effects in the American Woodcock: Conditions prior to fall migration relate to migration strategy and implications for conservation	5
Community characteristics of forest understory birds along an elevational gradient in the Horn of Africa: A multi-year baseline	5
Large trees and forest heterogeneity facilitate prey capture by California Spotted Owls	5
Future climate change will impact the size and location of breeding and wintering areas of migratory thrushes in South America	4
Environmental conditions and call-broadcast influence detection of eastern forest owls during standardized surveys	4
A parasite reduction conservation intervention does not improve fledging success or most condition metrics for Purple Martins	4
Metapopulation connectivity retains genetic diversity following a historical bottleneck in a federally endangered seabird	4
Juggling parenthood and ornithology: A full lifecycle approach to supporting mothers through the American Ornithological Society	4
Synthesis of Red-cockaded Woodpecker management strategies and suggestions for regional specificity in future management	4
Habitat openness and edge avoidance predict Saltmarsh Sparrow abundance better than habitat area	4
Supportive wind conditions influence offshore movements of Atlantic Coast Piping Plovers during fall migration	4

Postrelease survival of captive-bred Egyptian Vultures is similar to that of wild-hatched Egyptian Vultures and is not affected by release age or season	4
Interannual climate variation influences nest initiation date and nest productivity of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker at the northwestern edge of its range	4
Corrigendum: Testing a key assumption of using drones as frightening devices: Do birds perceive drones as risky?	4
Colony characteristics influence nest survival of Caribbean Roseate Terns	4
Low reproductive success of the endangered Iberá Seedeater in its only known breeding site, the Iberá Wetlands, Argentina	4
Year-round monitoring at a Pacific coastal campus reveals similar winter and spring collision mortality and high vulnerability of the Varied Thrush	4
Highly specialized recreationists contribute the most to the citizen science project eBird	4
Rusty Blackbirds select areas of greater habitat complexity during stopover	4
Irruptive White Ibis breeding is associated with use of freshwater crayfish in the coastal Everglades	4
Distribution models using semi-structured community science data outperform unstructured-data models for a data-poor species, the Plain Tyrannulet	4
Mixed evidence for effects of stewardship on Least Tern reproductive success in coastal Mississippi	4
Oil and gas development does not reduce duck pair abundance in the Prairie Pothole Region	4
Bird–building collisions increase with weather conditions that favor nocturnal migration and with inclement and changing weather	3
Large-scale supplemental feeding alters lay date and nest survival in Eastern Bluebirds but not in two species of chickadees	3
Meta-analysis shows that overabundant deer (Cervidae) populations consistently decrease average population abundance and species richness of forest birds	3
Drastic reduction of the population distribution of White Storks predicted in absence of landfills	3
Galliform exclusion from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act has produced an alternate conservation path, but no evidence for differences in population status	3
Greater Sage-Grouse survival varies with breeding season events in West Nile virus non-outbreak years	3
Migratory status determines resource selection by American Woodcock at an important fall stopover, Cape May, New Jersey	3
Northern Bobwhite juvenile survival is greater in native grasslands managed with fire and grazing and lower in non-native field borders and strip crop fields	3
N-mixture models estimate abundance reliably: A field test on Marsh Tit using time-for-space substitution	3
Sixty-years of community-science data suggest earlier fall migration and short-stopping of waterfowl in North America	3
Passive acoustic monitoring indicates Barred Owls are established in northern coastal California and management intervention is warranted	3
Dynamic occupancy models reveal Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos have high rates of turnover during the breeding season	3
Cerulean Warblers exhibit parallel migration patterns and multiple migratory stopovers within the Central American Isthmus	3
U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System likely to see regional and seasonal species turnover in bird assemblages under a 2°C warming scenario	3
Predation, parasitism, and drought counteract the benefits of patch-burn grazing for the reproductive success of grassland songbirds	3
Riparian habitat restoration increases the availability and occupancy of Yellow-breasted Chat territories but brood parasitism is the primary influence on reproductive performance	3
The desert exploiter: An overabundant crow species exhibits a neighborhood diffusion pattern into the southern region of Israel	2
Marbled Murrelets prefer stratified waters close to freshwater inputs in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada	2
High-intensity short-duration grazing during spring is not an effective habitat management tool for Northern Bobwhites in Colorado	2
Spatially explicit Bayesian hierarchical models improve estimates of avian population status and trends	2
Widespread bird species show idiosyncratic responses in residual body mass to selective logging and edge effects in the Colombian Western Andes	2
Predator exclosures increase nest success but reduce adult survival and increase dispersal distance of Piping Plovers, indicating exclosures should be used with caution	2
Influence of fine-scale habitat characteristics on sage-grouse nest site selection and nest survival varies by mesic and xeric site conditions	2
More than mortality: Consequences of human activity on migrating birds extend beyond direct mortality	2
Breeding season forest fragment size does not create negative carry-over for adult Wood Thrushes on fall migration timing or apparent annual survival	2
Genetic structure in the nonbreeding range ofrufaRed Knots suggests distinct Arctic breeding populations	2
Six principles for working effectively with landowners to advance bird conservation	2
Golden Eagle dietary shifts following wildfire and shrub loss have negative consequences for nestling survivorship	2
Surrounding landscape, habitat and hybridization dynamics drive population structure and genetic diversity in the Saltmarsh Sparrow	2
Tall, heterogeneous forests improve prey capture, delivery to nestlings, and reproductive success for Spotted Owls in southern California	2
Increasing perceived predation risk through playbacks reduces Red-winged Blackbird abundance in agriculture late in the breeding season	2
Integrating multiple data sources improves prediction and inference for upland game bird occupancy models	2
Seasonal rainfall in subtropical montane cloud forests drives demographic fluctuations in a Green-backed Tit population	2
Avian botulism is a primary, year-round threat to adult survival in the endangered Hawaiian Duck on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA	2
Sequential use of niche and occupancy models identifies conservation and research priority areas for two data-poor endemic birds from the Colombian Andes	2
Using foraging range and colony size to assess the vulnerability of breeding seabirds to oil across regions lacking at-sea distribution data	2
Eastern Whip-poor-will abundance declines with urban land cover and increases with moth abundance in the American Midwest	2
A near-range plant invasion homogenizes riparian vegetation but leads to more productive bird communities	2
Avoidance of offshore wind farms by Sandwich Terns increases with turbine density	2
Climate change is predicted to reduce sympatry among North American wood-warblers	2
Tamarisk biocontrol alters bird community composition in the absence of cottonwood and willow vegetation	2
Range-wide habitat use of the Harpy Eagle indicates four major tropical forest gaps in the Key Biodiversity Area network	2
Integrated population modeling identifies low duckling survival as a key driver of decline in a European population of the Mallard	2
Controlling trapping, overgrazing and invasive vegetation is key to saving Java’s last population of the Black-winged Myna	2
Conservation social science inOrnithological Applications	2
Dispersal patterns of the endangered Crested Ibis suggest high breeding densities drive natal dispersal	2