OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ostrich 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and citizen science: lessons learned from southern Africa	35
On a collision course? The large diversity of birds killed by wind turbines in South Africa	17
South African raptors in urban landscapes: a review	17
The African Bird Atlas Project: a description of the project and BirdMap data-collection protocol	13
Large Pleistocene avian tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa	10
Body mass and condition of a fynbos bird community: investigating impacts of time, weather and raptor abundance from long-term citizen- science datasets	10
Urban areas have lower species richness, but maintain functional diversity: insights from the African Bird Atlas Project	10
Traditional belief systems and trade in vulture parts are leading to the eradication of vultures in Nigeria: an ethno-ornithological study of north-central Nigeria	10
Dazzled by the light: the impact of light pollution from ships on seabirds at Tristan da Cunha	9
Assessments of range-wide distribution of six African storks and their relationships with protected areas	8
Anthropogenic food availability and body mass maintenance in urban Red-winged Starlings Onychognathus morio	8
Reliability and quality of artificial nectar feeders for birds in the Cape Floristic Region	6
Duration of survey changes interpretation of habitat preferences: an example of an endemic tropical songbird, the Bangwa Forest Warbler	6
Effects of tropical rainforest fragmentation on bird species: a case study from the Bemanevika Protected Area, northwestern Madagascar	6
Foraging behaviour of wintering shorebirds at Merja Zerga lagoon (Atlantic coast, Morocco)	5
The value of citizen science projects to African ornithology	5
The trade in the endangered African Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus and the Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh in Algeria	5
Nest-site characteristics of Levaillant’s Woodpecker Picus vaillantii endemic to North Africa	5
Potential release sites and strategies for a Bearded VultureGypaetus barbatusreintroduction in South Africa	5
A southern perspective on urban birds	4
A comparison of migrant and resident bird population changes in South Africa using citizen science data: trends in relation to Northern Hemisphere distribution	4
Resolving nomenclatural ‘confusion’ vis-à-vis Latham’s Francolin (Francolinus/Peliperdix/Afrocolinus lathami) and the ‘Red-tailed’ francolins (Francolinus/Ortygornis/Peliperdix spp.)	4
Wing-moult and seasonal occurrence of sunbirds (Nectariniidae) captured at four sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Multiple GPS fix intervals show variations in the manner African White-backed Vultures Gyps africanus utilise space	4
Citizen science in South Africa: a personal perspective	4

Winter breeding season of Brown-throated Martins Riparia paludicola in Morocco	4
Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus movements between Europe and Africa show a pattern across the Strait of Gibraltar	3
Using digital photography to study moult extent in breeding seabirds	3
The importance of adopting an integrative taxonomy framework in species delimitation: Response to Hunter et al. (2021)	3
Distribution and breeding numbers of a recently split species, the West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis	3
Genetic and morphological variation of Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis reveals cryptic mitochondrial lineages and patterns of mitochondrial–nuclear discordance	3
The role of size and number of forest patches in the conservation of bird species in a fragmented landscape	3
Population Viability Analysis for a vulnerable ground-nesting species, the Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus: assessing juvenile mortality as a potential area for conservation management	3
Nestling diet of the Algerian NuthatchSitta ledanti, an endemic threatened bird in Babors’ Kabylia region (north-eastern Algeria)	3
Timing, duration and symmetry of moult in Cape Gannets	3
Population trends of resident and migrant West African bird species monitored over an 18-year period in central Nigeria	3
Local variations in the response of birds to human presence in urban areas	3
Trends in populations of Blue Crane Anthropoides paradiseus in agricultural landscapes of Western Cape, South Africa, as measured by road counts	3
Sexual and individual signatures are encoded in the temporal rate of Cape GannetMorus capensisdisplay calls	3
Ranging behaviour of Long-crested Eagles Lophaetus occipitalis in human-modified landscapes of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	3
A demonstration of the value of recapture data for informing moult phenology models for avian species with imperfect moult data	3
Reflections concerning spurfowl and francolin species recommendations contained in Mandiwana-Neudani et al. (2019a and 2019b)	3