OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ornithological Applications is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Are declines in insects and insectivorous birds related?	49
Beyond refueling: Investigating the diversity of functions of migratory stopover events	32
Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future	26
Accelerating declines of North America’s shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action	22
Drones and deep learning produce accurate and efficient monitoring of large-scale seabird colonies	19
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	14
Unprecedented heat mortality of Magellanic Penguins	13
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	12
Bridging the research-implementation gap in avian conservation with translational ecology	12
Integrating tracking and resight data enables unbiased inferences about migratory connectivity and winter range survival from archival tags	11
Metabarcoding of stomach contents and fecal samples provide similar insights about Seaside Sparrow diet	11
Greater Sage-Grouse nest bowls buffer microclimate in a post-megafire landscape although effects on nest survival are marginal	11
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	10
How to include and recognize the work of ornithologists based in the Neotropics: Fourteen actions forOrnithological Applications,Ornithology, and other global-scope journals	9
Experimental playback of natural gas compressor noise reduces incubation time and hatching success in two secondary cavity-nesting bird species	9
Correcting parentage relationships in the endangered California Condor: Improving mean kinship estimates for conservation management	9
White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain	8
Diet composition of reintroduced Red-and-Green Macaws reflects gradual adaptation to life in the wild	8
Wildfire smoke affects detection of birds in Washington State	8
Large trees and forest heterogeneity facilitate prey capture by California Spotted Owls	8
Vegetation characteristics and precipitation jointly influence grassland bird abundance beyond the effects of grazing management	8
Fully accounting for nest age reduces bias when quantifying nest survival	7
High rates of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in California Barred Owls are associated with the wildland–urban interface	7
Eastern-breeding Lesser Yellowlegs are more likely than western-breeding birds to visit areas with high shorebird hunting during southward migration	7
Highly specialized recreationists contribute the most to the citizen science project eBird	7

Conspecific attraction for conservation and management of terrestrial breeding birds: Current knowledge and future research directions	7
Breeding success in Southern Australian Little Penguins is negatively correlated with high wind speeds and sea surface temperatures	7
The Colorado River Delta and California’s Central Valley are critical regions for many migrating North American landbirds	7
Declining wintering shorebird populations at a temperate estuary in California: A 30-year perspective	7
Disturbed Amazonian forests support diminished breeding bird communities	6
Genetic data disagree with described subspecies ranges for Seaside Sparrows on the Atlantic coast	6
Barn Owls select uncultivated habitats for hunting in a winegrape growing region of California	6
Combination of targeted monitoring and Breeding Bird Survey data improves population trend estimation and species distribution modeling for the Common Nighthawk	6
Metapopulation connectivity retains genetic diversity following a historical bottleneck in a federally endangered seabird	6
Lack of standardization in the use of road counts for surveying raptors	6
Irruptive White Ibis breeding is associated with use of freshwater crayfish in the coastal Everglades	5
Community characteristics of forest understory birds along an elevational gradient in the Horn of Africa: A multi-year baseline	5
Distribution models using semi-structured community science data outperform unstructured-data models for a data-poor species, the Plain Tyrannulet	5
Urban rooftop-nesting Common Nighthawk chicks tolerate high temperatures by hyperthermia with relatively low rates of evaporative water loss	5
Do metal mines and their runoff affect plumage color? Streak-backed Orioles in Mexico show unexpected patterns	5
Sea ice and local weather affect reproductive phenology of a polar seabird with breeding consequences	5
Cross-seasonal effects in the American Woodcock: Conditions prior to fall migration relate to migration strategy and implications for conservation	5
Climate variation drives dynamics and productivity of a subalpine breeding bird community	5
Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California	5
Future climate change will impact the size and location of breeding and wintering areas of migratory thrushes in South America	5
Large-scale supplemental feeding alters lay date and nest survival in Eastern Bluebirds but not in two species of chickadees	5
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	5
U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System likely to see regional and seasonal species turnover in bird assemblages under a 2°C warming scenario	5
Sixty-years of community-science data suggest earlier fall migration and short-stopping of waterfowl in North America	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
Protected areas safeguard landbird populations in central coastal California: Evidence from long-term population trends	5
Eastern Whip-poor-will abundance declines with urban land cover and increases with moth abundance in the American Midwest	4
Predation, parasitism, and drought counteract the benefits of patch-burn grazing for the reproductive success of grassland songbirds	4
Dynamic occupancy models reveal Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos have high rates of turnover during the breeding season	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
Juvenile Northern Spotted Owls with higher mass and intermediate levels of corticosterone have greater long-term survival	4
Oil and gas development does not reduce duck pair abundance in the Prairie Pothole Region	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
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
Passive acoustic monitoring indicates Barred Owls are established in northern coastal California and management intervention is warranted	4
Year-round monitoring at a Pacific coastal campus reveals similar winter and spring collision mortality and high vulnerability of the Varied Thrush	4
Interannual climate variation influences nest initiation date and nest productivity of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker at the northwestern edge of its range	4