OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ornithological Applications 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Songbird annual productivity declines with increasing soil lead contamination around nests	46
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds	35
Birds of Rhode Island: Seasonal Distribution and Ecological History	33
Differential seasonal avoidance of anthropogenic features and woody vegetation by Lesser Prairie-Chickens	19
Similar post-fledging behavior observed in wild and reintroduced juvenile Bonelli’s Eagle in two Mediterranean islands	18
Brood parasitism of Hooded Warblers by Brown-headed Cowbirds: Severe impact on individual nests but modest consequences for seasonal fecundity and conservation	16
Breeding Sternula antillarum (Least Terns) disturbance distances and duration of escape behaviors: Pedestrians necessitate larger conservation buffers than do passing vehicles	15
Fine-scale forest structure, not management regime, drives occupancy of a declining songbird, the Olive-sided Flycatcher, in the core of its range	14
Empirical and simulation data reveal a lack of avoidance of wind turbines by Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture)	13
Thomas E. Lovejoy III, 1941–2021	12
A Wing and A Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds	11
2024 AOS Early Professional Awards to Sheela P. Turbek, Jessie L. Williamson, and Gavin M. Jones	10
The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, ecology, and conservation	10
Beach recreationists perceive a lack of knowledge about shorebirds’ needs as a constraint to walking around shorebird flocks	10
2021 AOS Early Professional Awards to Benjamin Van Doren, Ana Gonzalez, Sahas Barve, and Luis Sandoval	9
Florida Scrub-Jay: Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird	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
Prevalence and diversity of malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium) in the imperiled Saltmarsh Sparrow are greater at northern sites	7
Corrigendum to: Predation, parasitism, and drought counteract the benefits of patch-burn grazing for the reproductive success of grassland songbirds	7
Offspring of translocated individuals drive the successful reintroduction of Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse in Nevada, USA	7
N-mixture models estimate abundance reliably: A field test on Marsh Tit using time-for-space substitution	6
Alaska’s climate sensitive Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta supports seven million Arctic-breeding shorebirds, including the majority of six North American populations	6
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
Reintroduced Oriental Stork survival differed by mitochondrial DNA haplotype	6
2021 AOS Harry R. Painton Award to Walter Piper, Jason Grear, Brian Hoover, Elaina Lomery, and Linda Grenzer	6
Natal forest fragment size does not predict fledgling, pre-migration or apparent annual survival in Wood Thrushes	6
Genetic structure in the nonbreeding range ofrufaRed Knots suggests distinct Arctic breeding populations	6
Correction to: Meta-replication reveals nonstationarity in multi-scale habitat selection of Mexican Spotted Owl	6
Climate change is predicted to reduce sympatry among North American wood-warblers	6
Wetter and more forested nonbreeding areas result in later departures but a faster spring migration in Vermivora chrysoptera (Golden-winged Warbler)	6
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) has been replacing Anas rubripes (American Black Duck) in human-altered landscapes in Ontario, 1996 to 2019	5
Shrub cover and height determine the density of Vireo atricapilla (Black-capped Vireo) at two national wildlife refuges	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
The spatiotemporal properties of artificial feeding schemes influence the post-fledging movement of Egyptian Vultures	5
Low Kirtland’s Warbler fledgling survival in Wisconsin plantations relative to Michigan plantations	5
Dispersal patterns of the endangered Crested Ibis suggest high breeding densities drive natal dispersal	5
Secondary Amazon rainforest partially recovers tree cavities suitable for nesting birds in 18–34 years	5
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2023 Ornithological Applications, volume 125	5
Citizen science generates reliable migration chronologies to supplement professional surveys for waterfowl habitat management	4
Despite regional variation, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus (Pinyon Jay) densities generally increase with local pinyon–juniper cover and heterogeneous ground cover	4
Bird predation and landscape context shape arthropod communities on broccoli	4
Controlling trapping, overgrazing and invasive vegetation is key to saving Java’s last population of the Black-winged Myna	4
Abundance and distribution of birds from comprehensive surveys of the Canadian Arctic, 1994–2018	4
Under cover of darkness: Refuge from artificial light at night may mitigate risks to stranded seabirds	4
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	4
Contributions of environmental conditions and sound characteristics to differences in perceptibility: Recommendations for passive acoustic monitoring	4
Rapid population decline in McKay’s Bunting, an Alaskan endemic, highlights the species’ current status relative to international standards for vulnerable species	4
Avian botulism is a primary, year-round threat to adult survival in the endangered Hawaiian Duck on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA	4
Weak genetic structure, shared nonbreeding areas, and extensive movement in a declining waterbird	4
Accounting for seasonal patterns in bird availability prevents biased population trend estimates with advancing spring phenology	3
Despite short-lived changes, COVID-19 pandemic had minimal large-scale impact on citizen science participation in India	3
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	3
The illegal trade of wild birds in a social network: A call for action from Argentina	3
Insectivore diet and abundance determine the contribution of bird species to services and disservices in an agricultural ecosystem	3
Nonbreeding distributions of four declining Nearctic–Neotropical migrants are predicted to contract under future climate and socioeconomic scenarios	3
Loon Lessons: Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver	3
Lipid metabolites index habitat quality for Canvasbacks on stopover areas during spring migration	3
Journeys with Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguins	3
Cross-seasonal effects in the American Woodcock: Conditions prior to fall migration relate to migration strategy and implications for conservation	3
Light-level geolocators and species distribution modeling reveal that the Vulnerable Sporophila cinnamomea (Chestnut Seedeater) migrates through the Paraná-Paraguay system to Central Brazil	3
High inter-population connectivity and occasional gene flow between subspecies improves recovery potential for the endangered Least Bell’s Vireo	3
Is green the new black? Black-backed Woodpecker vital rates do not differ between unburned and burned forests within a pyrodiverse landscape	3
Cellular network measurements can unravel spatiotemporal properties of bird movement to enhance basic and applied knowledge globally	3
Decolonizing bird knowledge: More-than-Western bird–human relations	3
Rapid growth of the Swainson’s Hawk population in California since 2005	3
Mismatch between strong nest-site selection and low survival of nests and broods for Scolopax minor (American Woodcock) and its implications for conservation	3
Bird versus Bulldozer: A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot	3
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2022 Ornithological Applications, volume 124	3
Caught out in the cold: Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) survival decreased during an extreme climatic event	3