Journal of Avian Biology

Article	Citations
Defining moults in migratory birds: a sequence‐based approach	156
Moult terminology: envisioning an evolutionary approach	63
Nestling diet and parental food provisioning in a declining mountain passerine reveal high sensitivity to climate change	25
Higher temperatures are associated with reduced nestling body condition in a range‐restricted mountain bird	21
Habitat shapes diversity of gut microbiomes in a wild population of blue titsCyanistes caeruleus	19
Seasonal and daily movement patterns of an alpine passerine suggest high flexibility in relation to environmental conditions	18
A lightweight backpack harness for tracking hummingbirds	15
Population‐specific adjustment of the annual cycle in a super‐swift trans‐Saharan migrant	15
Effects of back‐mounted biologgers on condition, diving and flight performance in a breeding seabird	14
Cryptic differentiation in the Manx shearwater hinders the identification of a new endemic subspecies	14
Linking foraging and breeding strategies in tropical seabirds	13
Apparent breeding success drives long‐term population dynamics of a migratory swan	13
The uropygial gland microbiome of house sparrows with malaria infection	12
Snow buntings preparing for migration increase muscle fiber size and myonuclear domain in parallel with a major gain in fat mass	12
Latitudinal variation in arrival and breeding phenology of the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca using large‐scale citizen science data	11
Deconstructing incubation behaviour in response to ambient temperature over different timescales	11
The El Niño – Southern Oscillation dramatically influences the probability of reproduction and reproductive rate of a tropical forest bird	11
Migration strategies, performance and annual activity budget in a short‐distance migrant, the common starlingSturnus vulgaris	10
Sex and age, but not blood parasite infection nor habitat, affect the composition of the uropygial gland secretions in European blackbirds	10
Urban links to molt schedule, body condition and carotenoid‐based coloration in the house finch Haemorhous mexicanus	10
Biogeography and diversification of Old World buntings (Aves: Emberizidae): radiation in open habitats	9
Gardeners of the forest: hornbills govern the spatial distribution of large seeds	8
Nest‐boxes alter the reproductive ecology of urban cavity‐nesters in a species‐dependent way	8
Regional wind patterns likely shape a seasonal migration detour	8
Spatial and temporal variation in foraging of breeding red‐throated divers	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
Geographic variation in body size and plumage colour according to diet composition in a nocturnal raptor	8
Innate and adaptive immune proteins in the preen gland secretions of male house sparrows	7
Tracking migration of black‐headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala reveals the Iranian Plateau as an ecological barrier along the Indo‐European flyway	7
An assay to investigate factors influencing initial orientation in nocturnally fledging seabirds	7
A putative telomerase activator has tissue‐specific effects on telomere length in a developing songbird	7
Energetic synchrony throughout the non‐breeding season in common guillemots from four colonies	7
Activity patterns of Hawaiian forest birds in a fragmented and continuous landscape	7
High site fidelity does not equate to population genetic structure for common goldeneye and Barrow's goldeneye in North America	7
Phylogeography and demographic history of the black kite Milvus migrans, a widespread raptor in Eurasia, Australia and Africa	6
Estimate of Strouhal and Reynolds numbers for swimming penguins	6
Sex‐specific effects of predation risk on parental care in a sexually dichromatic Neotropical songbird	6
Sunbirds' tendency to hover: the roles of energetic rewards, inflorescence architecture and rain	6
New distributional opportunities with niche innovation in Eurasian snowfinches	6
Competition between the black‐winged kite and Eurasian kestrel led to population turnover at a subtropical sympatric site	6
Changes in fat mass affect the motivation to migrate in northern wheatears	6
Bird migration in space and time: chain migration by Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata arquata along the East Atlantic Flyway	6
Diel at‐sea activity of two species of great albatrosses: the ontogeny of foraging and movement behaviour	6
Locally adapted migration strategies? Comparing routes and timing of northern wheatears from alpine and lowland European populations	6
Causes and consequences of variation in diet composition of nestling Canada jays	6
Sea crossings of migratory pink‐footed geese: seasonal effects of winds on flying and stopping behaviour	6
Effects of climate on bill morphology within and across Toxostoma thrashers	6
Local male breeding density affects extra‐pair paternity in a south temperate population of grass wrensCistothorus platensis	6
Song but not plumage varies geographically among willow flycatcher Empidonax traillii subspecies	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
Gut microbiome composition associated with Plasmodium infection in the Eurasian tree sparrow	5
Energetic constraints drive sex‐specific parental care in the monomorphic Leach's storm‐petrelHydrobates leucorhous	5
Do phylogeny and habitat influence admixture among four North American chickadee (family: Paridae) species?	5
Climate trends and behavior of a model Amazonian terrestrial insectivore, black‐faced antthrush, indicate adjustment to hot and dry conditions	5
Breeding status shapes territoriality and vocalization patterns in spotted owls	5
Anthropogenic noise, song, and territorial aggression in southern house wrens	5
The costs of using night roosts for migrating whimbrels	5
Carry‐over effects on reproduction in food‐supplemented wintering great tits	5
Hidden in plain sight: migration routes of the elusive Anadyr bar‐tailed godwit revealed by satellite tracking	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
Evolution of vocal performance and song complexity in island birds	5
Competition is a major limiting factor of refueling in migratory passerines during stopover	5
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
Offspring provisioning by extra‐pair males in blue tits	4
Exceptionally high apparent adult survival in three tropical species of plovers in Madagascar	4
Introgression between Sphyrapicus nuchalis and S. varius sapsuckers in a hybrid zone in west‐central Alberta	4
Does hatch date set the clock? Timing of post‐fledging movements for families of a colonially breeding, long‐distance migratory songbird	4
Decreased selectivity during mate choice in a small‐sized population of a long‐lived seabird	4
Danger, risk and anti‐predator behavior in the life history of long‐distance migratory sandpipers	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
First records of complete annual cycles in water rails Rallus aquaticus show evidence of itinerant breeding and a complex migration system	4
Does plumage colour signal fitness in the tawny owl Strix aluco?	4
Telomere length in relation to colour polymorphism across life stages in the tawny owl	4
Sexual maturity varies with melanic plumage traits in the barn owl	4

Reproductive success of the wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix varies across Europe	4
Beyond habitat: effects of conspecific and heterospecific aggregation on the spatial structure of a wetland nesting bird community	4
Exotic tree plantations as alternative breeding habitat for an endemic avian predator	4
Object neophilia in wild herring gulls in urban and rural locations	4
Higher probability of tick infestation reveals a hidden cost of army ant‐following in Amazonian birds	4
Overlap in the wing shape of migratory, nomadic and sedentary grass parrots	4
Interspecific competition and facilitation coexist in mixed‐species bird flocks of montane coniferous forests in Taiwan	4
Hanging out in the outback: the use of social hotspots by wild zebra finches	4
Microbiome composition of Anna's hummingbirds differs among regions of the gastrointestinal tract	4
Evidence for cross transmission of pathogens between wild hooded cranes and domestic geese	4
Experimentally impaired female condition does not affect biliverdin‐based egg colour	4
Itinerant lifestyle and congregation of lesser kestrels in West Africa	4
Shifting environmental predictors of phenotypes under climate change: a case study of growth in high latitude seabirds	3
Maturational changes in song sparrow song	3
Multiple stressors: negative effects of nest predation on the viability of a threatened gull in different environmental conditions	3
Habitat‐specific survival of golden‐winged warblers Vermivora chrysoptera during the non‐breeding season in an agricultural landscape	3
An endangered bird calls less when invasive birds are calling	3
Migration patterns and wintering distribution of common loons breeding in the Upper Midwest	3
Trophic strategies of two sympatric endemic pigeons in insular ecosystems: a framework for understanding spatiotemporal frugivory interactions	3
Elevated phytohaemagglutinin‐induced skin‐swelling response at an intermediate number of MHC class II alleles in bluethroat nestlings	3
Avian community composition affects ornithophilic mosquito and avian malaria turnover across an interfluvial system in southern Amazonia	3
Habitat area and environmental filters determine avian richness along an elevation gradient in mountain peatlands	3
A trans‐African migrant shows repeatable route choice in males and repeatable timing in females	3
Evening locomotor activity during stopover differs on pre‐departure and departure days in free‐living songbirds	3
Barred buttonquail males outlive females	3
The correlates of intraspecific variation in nest height and nest building duration in the Eurasian blue titCyanistes caeruleus	3
Role of the Chicamocha River Canyon on the phylogeography of humid montane forest birds in Colombia	3
Nest orientation and proximity to snow patches are important for nest site selection of a cavity breeder at high elevation	3
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the ancient genus Onychorhynchus (Aves: Onychorhynchidae) suggest cryptic Amazonian diversity	3
Duet codes do not enhance neighbour recognition in two closely related species of duetting neotropical wrens	3
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	3
Wildfire affects expression of male sexual plumage through suppressed testosterone circulation in a tropical songbird	3
Parental investment does not directly affect reproductive success in the saffron finch	3
Effects of age and weather during moult on mountain bluebird Sialia currucoides structural colouration	3
Good vibrations: remote‐tactile foraging success of wading birds is positively affected by the water content of substrates they forage in	3
Patterns of hybridization in a secondary contact zone between two passerine species, the common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos and the thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia	3
Ecological traits drive genetic structuring in two open‐habitat birds from the morphologically cryptic genus Elaenia (Aves: Tyrannidae)	3
Differences in feather structure between urban and forest great tits: constraint or adaptation?	3
Genetic diversity, differentiation and historical origin of the isolated population of rooks Corvus frugilegus in Iberia	3
Evaluating the potential effects of capturing and handling on subsequent observations of a migratory passerine through individual acoustic monitoring	3
Ecomorphs are not species: the case of locally adapted populations of red crossbills	3
Using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to characterize nest site selection in wild Japanese tits Parus minor	3
Secrets of the night: roost sites and sleep disturbance factors during the autumn migration of first‐year white storkCiconia ciconia	3
Food restriction delays breeding and affects insulin‐like growth factor‐1, oxidative damage and haematocrit value before egg‐laying in female canaries	3
Timing of departure from natal areas by golden eagles is not constrained by acquisition of flight skills	3
Wind effects on the long‐distance migration of GPS‐tracked adult ospreys Pandion haliaetus from Germany	2
Heterozygosity, genetic similarity and extra‐pair paternity variation in two populations of rock sparrow Petronia petronia: a within and between populations comparison	2
Spring and autumn movements of an Arctic bird in relation to temperature and primary production	2
Ecological factors driving the feather mite associations in tropical avian hosts	2
Congeneric predators fill discrete niches created by the relative abundances of their prey species	2
Plausible causes of seed preferences and diet composition in seed‐eating passerines	2
Local weather and endogenous factors affect the initiation of migration in short‐ and medium‐distance songbird migrants	2
Song parameters, repertoire size and song sharing within and across age classes in the saffron finch	2
Adaptive immune response and resting metabolism are unaffected by manipulation of flight intensity, but negatively related to each other	2
Population structure, patterns of natal dispersal and demographic history in a declining aerial insectivore, the purple martin Progne subis	2
Productivity drives the dynamics of a red kite source population that depends on immigration	2
Comparison of manual, machine learning, and hybrid methods for video annotation to extract parental care data	2
Exploring the mechanisms of coordinated chick provisioning in the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus	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
Feather traits in four southern populations of the Eurasian blackcapSylvia atricapilla: do altitudinal movements explain the differences?	2
Patterns in avian reproduction in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska, 2003–2019	2
Sex, landscape diversity and primary productivity shape the seasonal space use of a migratory European raptor	2
Two subspecies of a songbird migrant optimise departure from a coastal stopover with regard to weather and the route lying ahead	2
Extra‐pair paternity correlates with genetic diversity, but not breeding density, in a Neotropical passerine, the black catbird	2
Effects of nest predation on a south temperate house wren population	2
Experimentally induced flight costs do not lead to increased reliance on supplemental food in winter by a small songbird	2
Diurnal timing of nonmigratory movement by birds: the importance of foraging spatial scales	2
Evolution of female song and duetting in the chaffinch (Fringilla) species complex	2
Comparison of myonuclear domain in phylogenetically paired tropical and temperate bird species	2
Weather fluctuations are linked to nesting success and renesting decisions in saffron finches	1
A tail of plumage colouration: disentangling geographic, seasonal and dietary effects on plumage colour in a migratory songbird	1
Disentangling relationships between physiology, morphology, diet, and gut microbial diversity in American kestrel nestlings	1
Landscape configuration alters movement behavior and space‐use of a Hawaiian forest bird community	1
Tracking the migration of red‐necked stint Calidris ruficollis reveals marathon flights and unexpected conservation challenges	1
Compensatory effect of egg size dimorphism on hatching asynchrony in Magellanic penguin	1
Nest defence behaviour is similar between pair members but only male behaviour predicts nest survival in barnacle geese	1
Geolocation and immersion loggers reveal year‐round residency and facilitate nutrient deposition rate estimation of adult red‐footed boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, tropical Indian Ocean	1
Anything for a quiet life: shelter from mobbers drives reproductive success in a top‐level avian predator	1
Migrants and residents of a long‐lived seabird differ in their behavioural response to a stressor	1
Nest predation and climate change as drivers of alternative reproductive tactics in a migratory species	1

Blood‐ and muscle‐O2 storage capacity in North American diving ducks	1
Trailing the heat: Eurasian tealAnas creccaschedule their spring migration basing on the increase in soil temperatures along the route	1
Divorce is linked with extra‐pair paternity in a monogamous passerine	1
The multifaceted vocal duets of white‐browed sparrow weavers are based on complex duetting rules	1
Dietary fat supplements influence weight gain and egg production, but not offspring sex ratios in Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica	1
Tissue‐ and diet‐dependent stable carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination: a calibration study in a captive shorebird species	1
Vocal dimorphism in Anna's hummingbirds	1
Hot stops: timing, pathways, and habitat selection of migrating eastern whip‐poor‐wills	1
Coevolutionary maintenance of forked tails and song in hirundines (Aves: Hirundininae)	1
Using juvenile movements as a proxy for adult habitat and space use in long‐lived territorial species: a case study on the golden eagle	1
The northern wheatear is reducing its distribution in its southernmost European range and moving to higher altitudes	1
Egg size effects on nestling mass in jackdaws Corvus monedula: a cross‐foster experiment	1
Bear presence attracts avian predators but does not impact lesser snow goose daily nest attendance	1
Young male blackcaps with blood parasite coinfections cope with oxidative stress favouring anthocyanin‐rich food during migratory fattening	1
Extra‐pair paternity enhances the reproductive fitness of urban Chinese blackbird	1
First demographic insights reveal high extinction risk of an endemic raptor species: the Reunion harrier	1
Post‐colony swimming migration in the genus Uria	1
Cloaca‐ and feather‐associated bacteria communities in common waxbills Estrilda astrild	1
Phylogeography of the Dendrocolaptes picumnus (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) species complex: new insights on the diversification of a trans‐American lineage	1
Insufficient considerations of seasonality, data selection and validation lead to biased species–climate relationships in mountain birds	1
Philornis infection in blue‐black grassquits: impact on nestlings and risk factors involved	1
Dynamic body acceleration improves mapping of at‐sea foraging behavior in black‐tailed gulls Larus crassirostris	1
Variation in wing morphology is related to breeding environment in a high‐elevation specialist bird	1
Consistent apparent adult survival and nest‐site fidelity of whimbrelNumenius phaeopusnear Churchill, Manitoba, Canada over a 40 year period	1
Response to Hill and Powers: It is irrelevant that the mode and tempo of Cassia crossbill speciation is not typical for birds	1