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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds of Rhode Island: Seasonal Distribution and Ecological History	34
Fine-scale forest structure, not management regime, drives occupancy of a declining songbird, the Olive-sided Flycatcher, in the core of its range	31
Differential seasonal avoidance of anthropogenic features and woody vegetation by Lesser Prairie-Chickens	28
Brood parasitism of Hooded Warblers by Brown-headed Cowbirds: Severe impact on individual nests but modest consequences for seasonal fecundity and conservation	25
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds	16
Similar post-fledging behavior observed in wild and reintroduced juvenile Bonelli’s Eagle in two Mediterranean islands	16
Songbird annual productivity declines with increasing soil lead contamination around nests	15
2024 AOS Early Professional Awards to Sheela P. Turbek, Jessie L. Williamson, and Gavin M. Jones	14
Breeding Sternula antillarum (Least Terns) disturbance distances and duration of escape behaviors: pedestrians necessitate larger conservation buffers than do passing vehicles	14
Thomas E. Lovejoy III, 1941–2021	13
2021 AOS Early Professional Awards to Benjamin Van Doren, Ana Gonzalez, Sahas Barve, and Luis Sandoval	13
Florida Scrub-Jay: Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird	10
Metapopulation connectivity retains genetic diversity following a historical bottleneck in a federally endangered seabird	10
Empirical and simulation data reveal a lack of avoidance of wind turbines by Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture)	10
Vegetation characteristics and precipitation jointly influence grassland bird abundance beyond the effects of grazing management	9
Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California	9
High rates of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in California Barred Owls are associated with the wildland–urban interface	8
A Wing and A Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds	8
The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, ecology, and conservation	8
Beach recreationists perceive a lack of knowledge about shorebirds’ needs as a constraint to walking around shorebird flocks	8
Bird–building collisions increase with weather conditions that favor nocturnal migration and with inclement and changing weather	7
Corrigendum to: Predation, parasitism, and drought counteract the benefits of patch-burn grazing for the reproductive success of grassland songbirds	7
Climate change is predicted to reduce sympatry among North American wood-warblers	7
Prevalence and diversity of malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium) in the imperiled Saltmarsh Sparrow are greater at northern sites	7
Offspring of translocated individuals drive the successful reintroduction of Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse in Nevada, USA	7

Protected areas safeguard landbird populations in central coastal California: Evidence from long-term population trends	6
Turkey Vulture survival is reduced in areas of greater road density	6
Alaska’s climate sensitive Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta supports seven million Arctic-breeding shorebirds, including the majority of six North American populations	6
Fully accounting for nest age reduces bias when quantifying nest survival	6
A near-range plant invasion homogenizes riparian vegetation but leads to more productive bird communities	6
Natal forest fragment size does not predict fledgling, pre-migration or apparent annual survival in Wood Thrushes	6
2021 AOS Harry R. Painton Award to Walter Piper, Jason Grear, Brian Hoover, Elaina Lomery, and Linda Grenzer	6
Wildfire smoke affects detection of birds in Washington State	6
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2023 Ornithological Applications, volume 125	5
Low Kirtland’s Warbler fledgling survival in Wisconsin plantations relative to Michigan plantations	5
The spatiotemporal properties of artificial feeding schemes influence the post-fledging movement of Egyptian Vultures	5
Genetic structure in the nonbreeding range ofrufaRed Knots suggests distinct Arctic breeding populations	5
The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats	5
Dispersal patterns of the endangered Crested Ibis suggest high breeding densities drive natal dispersal	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
Causes of nest failure vary with water depth, nesting substrate, and adverse weather in the endangered wetland-breeding Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus (Everglade Snail Kite)	5
Correction to: Meta-replication reveals nonstationarity in multi-scale habitat selection of Mexican Spotted Owl	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
Reintroduced Oriental Stork survival differed by mitochondrial DNA haplotype	5
N-mixture models estimate abundance reliably: A field test on Marsh Tit using time-for-space substitution	4
Rapid population decline in McKay’s Bunting, an Alaskan endemic, highlights the species’ current status relative to international standards for vulnerable species	4
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	4
Controlling trapping, overgrazing and invasive vegetation is key to saving Java’s last population of the Black-winged Myna	4
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2022 Ornithological Applications, volume 124	4
Future sea-level rise in northwest Mexico is projected to decrease the distribution and habitat quality of the endangered Calidris canutus roselaari (Red Knot)	4
Shrub cover and height determine the density of Vireo atricapilla (black-capped vireo) at two national wildlife refuges	4
Bird predation and landscape context shape arthropod communities on broccoli	4
Bridging the research-implementation gap in avian conservation with translational ecology	4
Citizen science generates reliable migration chronologies to supplement professional surveys for waterfowl habitat management	4
Insectivore diet and abundance determine the contribution of bird species to services and disservices in an agricultural ecosystem	4
Secondary Amazon rainforest partially recovers tree cavities suitable for nesting birds in 18–34 years	4
Despite regional variation, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus (Pinyon Jay) densities generally increase with local pinyon–juniper cover and heterogeneous ground cover	4
Avian botulism is a primary, year-round threat to adult survival in the endangered Hawaiian Duck on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA	4
Under cover of darkness: Refuge from artificial light at night may mitigate risks to stranded seabirds	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
High inter-population connectivity and occasional gene flow between subspecies improves recovery potential for the endangered Least Bell’s Vireo	3
Cellular network measurements can unravel spatiotemporal properties of bird movement to enhance basic and applied knowledge globally	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
Rapid growth of the Swainson’s Hawk population in California since 2005	3
Cross-seasonal effects in the American Woodcock: Conditions prior to fall migration relate to migration strategy and implications for conservation	3
Caught out in the cold: Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) survival decreased during an extreme climatic event	3
Distribution models using semi-structured community science data outperform unstructured-data models for a data-poor species, the Plain Tyrannulet	3
Combination of targeted monitoring and Breeding Bird Survey data improves population trend estimation and species distribution modeling for the Common Nighthawk	3
Is green the new black? Black-backed Woodpecker vital rates do not differ between unburned and burned forests within a pyrodiverse landscape	3
Nonbreeding distributions of four declining Nearctic–Neotropical migrants are predicted to contract under future climate and socioeconomic scenarios	3
Weak genetic structure, shared nonbreeding areas, and extensive movement in a declining waterbird	3
Bird versus Bulldozer: A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot	3
Loon Lessons: Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver	3