Journal of Avian Biology

Article	Citations
Defining moults in migratory birds: a sequence‐based approach	84
Nestling diet and parental food provisioning in a declining mountain passerine reveal high sensitivity to climate change	23
Hummingbird torpor in context: duration, more than temperature, is the key to nighttime energy savings	21
Integrating light‐level geolocation with activity tracking reveals unexpected nocturnal migration patterns of the tawny pipit	20
Geolocators lead to better measures of timing and renesting in black‐tailed godwits and reveal the bias of traditional observational methods	20
Heavy and persistent rainfall leads to brood reduction and nest failure in a passerine bird	19
Higher temperatures are associated with reduced nestling body condition in a range‐restricted mountain bird	19
Goose parents lead migration V	18
Non‐photic environmental cues and avian reproduction in an era of global change	17
Dynamic changes in DNA methylation during postnatal development in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata exposed to different temperatures	17
Anthropogenic noise reduces avian feeding efficiency and increases vigilance along an urban–rural gradient regardless of species’ tolerances to urbanisation	16
Rethinking classic starling displacement experiments: evidence for innate or for learned migratory directions?	15
Seasonal and daily movement patterns of an alpine passerine suggest high flexibility in relation to environmental conditions	15
Coping with the commute: behavioural responses to wind conditions in a foraging seabird	14
Patterns and mechanisms of heterogeneous breeding distribution shifts of North American migratory birds	13
Winds at departure shape seasonal patterns of nocturnal bird migration over the North Sea	13
Is there more than one way to cross the Caribbean Sea? Migratory strategies of Nearctic‐Neotropical landbirds departing from northern Colombia	13
Cryptic differentiation in the Manx shearwater hinders the identification of a new endemic subspecies	13
Effects of back‐mounted biologgers on condition, diving and flight performance in a breeding seabird	13
Habitat shapes diversity of gut microbiomes in a wild population of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus	12
Weather effects on nestling survival of great tits vary according to the developmental stage	11
Population‐specific adjustment of the annual cycle in a super‐swift trans‐Saharan migrant	11
Latitudinal variation in arrival and breeding phenology of the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca using large‐scale citizen science data	11
A red knot as a black swan: how a single bird shows navigational abilities during repeat crossings of the Greenland Icecap	11
Development of intraspecific size variation in black coucals, white‐browed coucals and ruffs from hatching to fledging	11

Apparent breeding success drives long‐term population dynamics of a migratory swan	10
Extra‐pair copulations can insure female blue tits against male infertility	10
The uropygial gland microbiome of house sparrows with malaria infection	10
Moult terminology: envisioning an evolutionary approach	9
Host sex and age typically explain variation in parasitism of rock ptarmigan: implications for identifying determinants of exposure and susceptibility	9
The beak and unfeathered skin as heat radiators in the southern ground‐hornbill	9
Sex and age, but not blood parasite infection nor habitat, affect the composition of the uropygial gland secretions in European blackbirds	9
Pleistocene climatic oscillations associated with landscape heterogeneity of the South American dry diagonal explains the phylogeographic structure of the narrow‐billed woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes	9
A lightweight backpack harness for tracking hummingbirds	9
Survival probability in a small shorebird decreases with the time an individual carries a tracking device	8
Individual and sex‐related patterns of prolonged flights during both day and night by great reed warblers crossing the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara Desert	8
Using molecular and crowd‐sourcing methods to assess breeding ground diet of a migratory brood parasite of conservation concern	8
The El Niño – Southern Oscillation dramatically influences the probability of reproduction and reproductive rate of a tropical forest bird	8
Regional wind patterns likely shape a seasonal migration detour	8
Deconstructing incubation behaviour in response to ambient temperature over different timescales	8
Remarkably similar migration patterns between different red‐backed shrike populations suggest that migration rather than breeding area phenology determines the annual cycle	8
Hoopoe Upupa epops male feeding effort is related to female cosmetic egg colouration	7
Evidence of repertoire sharing and stability despite a high turnover rate in a duetting neotropical wren	7
Female–female aggression in a cooperatively breeding bird during the non‐breeding period: the behavioral strategy to maintain long‐term partnerships	7
Correlation in telomere lengths between feathers and blood cells in pied flycatchers	7
The difference between generalist and specialist: the effects of wide fluctuations in main food abundance on numbers and reproduction of two co‐existing predators	7
To migrate or not: drivers of over‐summering in a long‐distance migratory shorebird	7
An assay to investigate factors influencing initial orientation in nocturnally fledging seabirds	7
Biogeography and diversification of Old World buntings (Aves: Emberizidae): radiation in open habitats	7
Linking foraging and breeding strategies in tropical seabirds	7
Ambient temperature and female body condition are related to night incubation behavior in wood ducks Aix sponsa	7
Interspecific variation in deterioration and degradability of avian feathers: the evolutionary role of microorganisms	7
Avian egg collections: museum collection bias driven by shape and size	6
Central place foraging in a human‐dominated landscape: how do common cranes select feeding sites?	6
Raking the ocean surface: new patterns of coordinated motion in seabirds	6
Snow buntings preparing for migration increase muscle fiber size and myonuclear domain in parallel with a major gain in fat mass	6
Tracking migration of black‐headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala reveals the Iranian Plateau as an ecological barrier along the Indo‐European flyway	6
The function of sentinel alarm calls in the Arabian babbler	6
Nest‐boxes alter the reproductive ecology of urban cavity‐nesters in a species‐dependent way	6
Effects of climate on bill morphology within and across Toxostoma thrashers	6
Innate and adaptive immune proteins in the preen gland secretions of male house sparrows	6
A putative telomerase activator has tissue‐specific effects on telomere length in a developing songbird	6
Complex mosaic of sexual dichromatism and monochromatism in Pacific robins results from both gains and losses of elaborate coloration	6
Geographic variation in body size and plumage colour according to diet composition in a nocturnal raptor	6
Competition between the black‐winged kite and Eurasian kestrel led to population turnover at a subtropical sympatric site	5
Bird migration in space and time: chain migration by Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata arquata along the East Atlantic Flyway	5
Differences in oxidative stress across seasons and ability to cope with environmental mismatch in muscle and brain of black‐capped chickadees Poecile atricapillus and rock pigeons Columba li	5
Diel at‐sea activity of two species of great albatrosses: the ontogeny of foraging and movement behaviour	5
Locally adapted migration strategies? Comparing routes and timing of northern wheatears from alpine and lowland European populations	5
Age of the breeders, but not territory quality, explains hatching sex ratio in booted eagles	5
Spatial and temporal variation in foraging of breeding red‐throated divers	5
Smaller distance between nest contents and cavity entrance increases risk of ectoparasitism in cavity‐nesting birds	5
Singing behaviour of ruby‐crowned kinglets Regulus calendula in relation to time‐of‐day, time‐of‐year and social context	5
Local male breeding density affects extra‐pair paternity in a south temperate population of grass wrensCistothorus platensis	5
First tracking of declining Caspian terns Hydroprogne caspia breeding in the Baltic Sea reveals high migratory dispersion and disjunct annual ranges as obstacles to effective conservation	5

Causes and consequences of variation in diet composition of nestling Canada jays	5
Sea crossings of migratory pink‐footed geese: seasonal effects of winds on flying and stopping behaviour	5
Song but not plumage varies geographically among willow flycatcher Empidonax traillii subspecies	5
Experience counts: The role of female age in morning incubation and brooding behavior in relation to temperature	5
Microclimate shifts in nest‐boxes and natural cavities throughout reproduction	5
Moult nestedness and its imperfections: insights to unravel the nature of passerine wing‐feather moult rules	5
Activity patterns of Hawaiian forest birds in a fragmented and continuous landscape	4
Sperm numbers on the perivitelline layers of blue tit eggs are repeatable within a clutch, but independent of the occurrence of extra‐pair paternity	4
Phylogeography and demographic history of the black kite Milvus migrans, a widespread raptor in Eurasia, Australia and Africa	4
On the relative importance of ecology and geographic isolation as drivers for differentiation of call types of red crossbill Loxia curvirostra in the Palearctic	4
Anthropogenic noise, song, and territorial aggression in southern house wrens	4
High site fidelity does not equate to population genetic structure for common goldeneye and Barrow's goldeneye in North America	4
Impact of brood parasitism and predation on nest survival of the fan‐tailed gerygone in New Caledonia	4
Extra food provisioning reduces extra‐pair paternity in the lesser kestrel Falco naumanni	4
Reproductive success of the wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix varies across Europe	4
Do phylogeny and habitat influence admixture among four North American chickadee (family: Paridae) species?	4
Contrasting patterns of Campylobacter and Salmonella distribution in wild birds: a comparative analysis	4
The probability of being infected with haemosporidian parasites increases with host age but is not affected by experimental testosterone elevation in a wild songbird	4
An endangered bird calls less when invasive birds are calling	4
Migration strategies, performance and annual activity budget in a short‐distance migrant, the common starling Sturnus vulgaris	4
Gut microbiome composition associated with Plasmodium infection in the Eurasian tree sparrow	4
The importance of nighttime length to latitudinal variation in avian incubation attentiveness	4
Introgression between Sphyrapicus nuchalis and S. varius sapsuckers in a hybrid zone in west‐central Alberta	4
Effect of an introduced parasite in natural and anthropogenic habitats on the breeding success of the endemic little vermilion flycatcher Pyrocephalus nanus in the Galápagos	4
Sunbirds' tendency to hover: the roles of energetic rewards, inflorescence architecture and rain	4
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by Galápagos mockingbirds in response to environment	4
Beyond habitat: effects of conspecific and heterospecific aggregation on the spatial structure of a wetland nesting bird community	4
Using artificial intelligence classification of videos to examine the environmental, evolutionary and physiological constraints on provisioning behavior	4
Estimate of Strouhal and Reynolds numbers for swimming penguins	4
Changes in fat mass affect the motivation to migrate in northern wheatears	4
Sex‐specific effects of predation risk on parental care in a sexually dichromatic Neotropical songbird	4
Wildfire affects expression of male sexual plumage through suppressed testosterone circulation in a tropical songbird	4
Decreased selectivity during mate choice in a small‐sized population of a long‐lived seabird	4
Exotic tree plantations as alternative breeding habitat for an endemic avian predator	4
Maturational changes in song sparrow song	3
New distributional opportunities with niche innovation in Eurasian snowfinches	3
Breeding status shapes territoriality and vocalization patterns in spotted owls	3
Role of the Chicamocha River Canyon on the phylogeography of humid montane forest birds in Colombia	3
First records of complete annual cycles in water rails Rallus aquaticus show evidence of itinerant breeding and a complex migration system	3
Ecomorphs are not species: the case of locally adapted populations of red crossbills	3
Migration patterns and wintering distribution of common loons breeding in the Upper Midwest	3
Interspecific competition and facilitation coexist in mixed‐species bird flocks of montane coniferous forests in Taiwan	3
Effects of age and weather during moult on mountain bluebird Sialia currucoides structural colouration	3
Evening locomotor activity during stopover differs on pre‐departure and departure days in free‐living songbirds	3
Climate trends and behavior of a model Amazonian terrestrial insectivore, black‐faced antthrush, indicate adjustment to hot and dry conditions	3
Higher probability of tick infestation reveals a hidden cost of army ant‐following in Amazonian birds	3
Genetic diversity, differentiation and historical origin of the isolated population of rooks Corvus frugilegus in Iberia	3
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the ancient genus Onychorhynchus (Aves: Onychorhynchidae) suggest cryptic Amazonian diversity	3
Exceptionally high apparent adult survival in three tropical species of plovers in Madagascar	3
Evolution of vocal performance and song complexity in island birds	3
Energetic constraints drive sex‐specific parental care in the monomorphic Leach's storm‐petrelHydrobates leucorhous	3
Habitat area and environmental filters determine avian richness along an elevation gradient in mountain peatlands	3
Shifting environmental predictors of phenotypes under climate change: a case study of growth in high latitude seabirds	3
Gardeners of the forest: hornbills govern the spatial distribution of large seeds	3
Energetic synchrony throughout the non‐breeding season in common guillemots from four colonies	3
Offspring provisioning by extra‐pair males in blue tits	3
Does plumage colour signal fitness in the tawny owl Strix aluco?	3
Urban links to molt schedule, body condition and carotenoid‐based coloration in the house finch Haemorhous mexicanus	3
Overlap in the wing shape of migratory, nomadic and sedentary grass parrots	3
Elevated phytohaemagglutinin‐induced skin‐swelling response at an intermediate number of MHC class II alleles in bluethroat nestlings	3
The costs of using night roosts for migrating whimbrels	3
Microbiome composition of Anna's hummingbirds differs among regions of the gastrointestinal tract	3
Danger, risk and anti‐predator behavior in the life history of long‐distance migratory sandpipers	2
Carry‐over effects on reproduction in food‐supplemented wintering great tits	2
Ecological factors driving the feather mite associations in tropical avian hosts	2
Differences in feather structure between urban and forest great tits: constraint or adaptation?	2
Brood parasitism, provisioning rates and breeding phenology of male and female magpie hosts	2
Population decline of a long‐distance migratory passerine at the edge of its range: nest predation, nest replacement and immigration	2
The importance of chemical, visual and behavioral cues of predators on the antipredatory behavior of birds	2
Comparison of myonuclear domain in phylogenetically paired tropical and temperate bird species	2
Sexual maturity varies with melanic plumage traits in the barn owl	2
Heterozygosity, genetic similarity and extra‐pair paternity variation in two populations of rock sparrow Petronia petronia: a within and between populations comparison	2
Adaptive immune response and resting metabolism are unaffected by manipulation of flight intensity, but negatively related to each other	2
Duet codes do not enhance neighbour recognition in two closely related species of duetting neotropical wrens	2
Spring and autumn movements of an Arctic bird in relation to temperature and primary production	2
A trans‐African migrant shows repeatable route choice in males and repeatable timing in females	2
Congeneric predators fill discrete niches created by the relative abundances of their prey species	2
Immunological changes in nestlings growing under predation risk	2
Hidden in plain sight: migration routes of the elusive Anadyr bar‐tailed godwit revealed by satellite tracking	2
The correlates of intraspecific variation in nest height and nest building duration in the Eurasian blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus	2

Present in the western European Alps but absent in the eastern part: Can habitat availability explain the differences in red‐billed chough occurrence?	2
Telomere length in relation to colour polymorphism across life stages in the tawny owl	2
Trophic strategies of two sympatric endemic pigeons in insular ecosystems: a framework for understanding spatiotemporal frugivory interactions	2
A longitudinal analysis of the growth rate and mass of tail feathers in a great tit population: ontogeny, genetic effects and relationship between both traits	2
Does hatch date set the clock? Timing of post‐fledging movements for families of a colonially breeding, long‐distance migratory songbird	2
Parental investment does not directly affect reproductive success in the saffron finch	2
Patterns of hybridization in a secondary contact zone between two passerine species, the common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos and the thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia	2
Effects of nest predation on a south temperate house wren population	2
Multiple stressors: negative effects of nest predation on the viability of a threatened gull in different environmental conditions	2
Exploring the mechanisms of coordinated chick provisioning in the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus	2
Poleward non‐breeding migration of a breeding population: challenging the traditional perspective of avian migration	2
Falling out of the host nest: an overlooked factor decreasing survival of brood parasite chicks	2
Evaluating the potential effects of capturing and handling on subsequent observations of a migratory passerine through individual acoustic monitoring	2
Local weather and endogenous factors affect the initiation of migration in short‐ and medium‐distance songbird migrants	2
Feather traits in four southern populations of the Eurasian blackcapSylvia atricapilla: do altitudinal movements explain the differences?	2
Wind effects on the long‐distance migration of GPS‐tracked adult ospreys Pandion haliaetus from Germany	2
Song parameters, repertoire size and song sharing within and across age classes in the saffron finch	2
Avian community composition affects ornithophilic mosquito and avian malaria turnover across an interfluvial system in southern Amazonia	2
Evidence for cross transmission of pathogens between wild hooded cranes and domestic geese	2