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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Bird predation and landscape context shape arthropod communities on broccoli	32
Correction to: Meta-replication reveals nonstationarity in multi-scale habitat selection of Mexican Spotted Owl	26
Euphagus carolinus (Rusty Blackbird) from two different breeding populations in northeastern North America exhibit chain migration yet use the same region for stopover	22
Differential seasonal avoidance of anthropogenic features and woody vegetation by Lesser Prairie-Chickens	19
Despite regional variation, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus (Pinyon Jay) densities generally increase with local pinyon–juniper cover and heterogeneous ground cover	14
Fine-scale forest structure, not management regime, drives occupancy of a declining songbird, the Olive-sided Flycatcher, in the core of its range	13
Rapid population decline in McKay’s Bunting, an Alaskan endemic, highlights the species’ current status relative to international standards for vulnerable species	12
Assessing bird diversity in Neotropical rainforests: A comparative study of camera traps and mist nets reveals complementary sampling approaches	11
Juggling parenthood and ornithology: A full lifecycle approach to supporting mothers through the American Ornithological Society	11
2023 AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award to Vicki Friesen	11
Large trees and forest heterogeneity facilitate prey capture by California Spotted Owls	10
Brood parasitism of Hooded Warblers by Brown-headed Cowbirds: Severe impact on individual nests but modest consequences for seasonal fecundity and conservation	9
Integrated population modeling identifies low duckling survival as a key driver of decline in a European population of the Mallard	9
Similar post-fledging behavior observed in wild and reintroduced juvenile Bonelli’s Eagle in two Mediterranean islands	8
Urban rooftop-nesting Common Nighthawk chicks tolerate high temperatures by hyperthermia with relatively low rates of evaporative water loss	8
Declining wintering shorebird populations at a temperate estuary in California: A 30-year perspective	8
Bird associations with floristics and physiognomy differ across five biogeographic subregions of the Great Basin, USA	8
Avian botulism is a primary, year-round threat to adult survival in the endangered Hawaiian Duck on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, USA	8
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds	7
Message in A Bottle: Ocean Dispatches From A Seabird Biologist	7
Songbird annual productivity declines with increasing soil lead contamination around nests	7
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird	7
Managed logging negatively affects the density and abundance of some dry forest specialist bird species of northeastern Brazil	7
Two listeners detect slightly more birds than a single listener when interpreting acoustic recordings	6
A Connecticut Yankee goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate	6

Genetic data disagree with described subspecies ranges for Seaside Sparrows on the Atlantic coast	6
Unraveling demographic patterns in tropical birds across an elevational gradient	6
Diet composition of reintroduced Red-and-Green Macaws reflects gradual adaptation to life in the wild	5
Improving bird abundance estimates in harvested forests with retention by limiting detection radius through sound truncation	5
Automated bird sound classifications of long-duration recordings produce occupancy model outputs similar to manually annotated data	5
Bird versus Bulldozer: A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot	5
2022 AOS Peter R. Stettenheim Service Award to Melinda Pruett-Jones	5
Controlling trapping, overgrazing and invasive vegetation is key to saving Java’s last population of the Black-winged Myna	5
Birds of Rhode Island: Seasonal Distribution and Ecological History	5
More than mortality: Consequences of human activity on migrating birds extend beyond direct mortality	5
Rapid growth of the Swainson’s Hawk population in California since 2005	5
Jared Verner, 1934–2022	5
Informative priors can account for location uncertainty in stop-level analyses of the North American Breeding Bird Survey, allowing fine-scale ecological analyses	5
Colony characteristics influence nest survival of Caribbean Roseate Terns	5
Bridging the research-implementation gap in avian conservation with translational ecology	5
Influence of fine-scale habitat characteristics on sage-grouse nest site selection and nest survival varies by mesic and xeric site conditions	5
Combination of targeted monitoring and Breeding Bird Survey data improves population trend estimation and species distribution modeling for the Common Nighthawk	5
Disturbed Amazonian forests support diminished breeding bird communities	5
Survival estimates and hunter outreach are priorities for the collaborative harvest management of Emperor Goose in Alaska	4
Empirical and simulation data reveal a lack of avoidance of wind turbines by Gyps fulvus (Griffon Vulture)	4
Teak plantations are complementary habitat for the Green Peafowl movement within the fragmented Bago Yoma range, south-central Myanmar	4
2021 AOS Early Professional Awards to Benjamin Van Doren, Ana Gonzalez, Sahas Barve, and Luis Sandoval	4
Thomas E. Lovejoy III, 1941–2021	4
Florida Scrub-Jay: Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird	4
Genetic monitoring of the Critically Endangered Araripe Manakin reveals low diversity and declining effective population size	4
Migratory mixing of Gallinago delicata (Wilson’s Snipe) in wintering areas highlights the need for international coordination for monitoring and management	4
Bonelli’s Eagle electrocution risk in Israel can be reduced by 80% by insulating only 4% of the pylons	4
Distribution models using semi-structured community science data outperform unstructured-data models for a data-poor species, the Plain Tyrannulet	4
The Amazon Basin’s rivers and lakes support Nearctic-breeding shorebirds during southward migration	4
Weak genetic structure, shared nonbreeding areas, and extensive movement in a declining waterbird	4
2021 AOS Florence Merriam Bailey Award to Megan Garfinkel, Emily Minor, and Christopher Whelan	4
Thank you to the reviewers of the 2022 Ornithological Applications, volume 124	4
Experimental reduction of a primary nest predator fails to decrease nest predation rates of sagebrush songbirds	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
Metapopulation connectivity retains genetic diversity following a historical bottleneck in a federally endangered seabird	3
Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California	3
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds	3
Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide	3
Beach recreationists perceive a lack of knowledge about shorebirds’ needs as a constraint to walking around shorebird flocks	3
A Wing and A Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds	3
Insectivore diet and abundance determine the contribution of bird species to services and disservices in an agricultural ecosystem	3
Vegetation characteristics and precipitation jointly influence grassland bird abundance beyond the effects of grazing management	3
Accelerating declines of North America’s shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action	3
2024 AOS Early Professional Awards to Sheela P. Turbek, Jessie L. Williamson, and Gavin M. Jones	3
Conspecific attraction for conservation and management of terrestrial breeding birds: Current knowledge and future research directions	3
Characterizing juvenile dispersal dynamics of invasive Barred Owls: Implications for management	3
Conservation of Marine Birds	3
Modeling Falco naumanni (Lesser Kestrel) habitat selection according to meteorological conditions to identify risk-inducing wind turbines	3
Meta-analysis shows that overabundant deer (Cervidae) populations consistently decrease average population abundance and species richness of forest birds	3
Sixty-years of community-science data suggest earlier fall migration and short-stopping of waterfowl in North America	3

Thank you to the reviewers of the 2024 Ornithological Applications, volume 126