OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Bird Conservation International is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Electrical Components Involved in Avian-Caused Outages in Iran	17
Vultures feeding on the dark side: current sanitary regulations may not be enough	14
Priority areas for vulture conservation in the Horn of Africa largely fall outside the protected area network	12
Highly pathogenic avian influenza causes mass mortality in Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisbreeding colonies across north-western Europe	12
The importance of riparian forests and tree plantations for the occurrence of the European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turturin an intensively cultivated agroecosystem	11
Climate change exposure of waterbird species in the African-Eurasian flyways	10
Long-term size and range changes of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus population in the Balkans: a review	9
Pursuit of ‘sustainable’ development may contribute to the vulture crisis in East Africa	9
Trade in vulture parts in West Africa: Burkina Faso may be one of the main sources of vulture carcasses	8
Effects of seed-rich habitat provision on territory density, home range and breeding performance of European Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur	8
Integrating habitat suitability modelling and assessment of the conservation gaps of nature reserves for the threatened Reeves’s Pheasant	7
Occupancy of two forest specialist birds in the Southern Mistbelt Forests of KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa	7
An update on the conservation status of the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax: global and local population estimates, trends, and threats	7
Alarming decline of the Great Bustard Otis tarda world population over the last two decades	6
Nest cameras do not affect nest survival in a meadow-nesting shorebird	6
Birds in Europe 4: the fourth assessment of Species of European Conservation Concern	6
Artificial grass in parks as a potential new threat for urban bird communities	6
Recent recovery and expansion of Guam’s locally endangered Såli (Micronesian Starling) Aplonis opaca population in the presence of the invasive brown treesnake	6
Electric infrastructure poses a significant threat at congregation sites of the globally threatened Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis in Saudi Arabia	6
Survival rates and reproductive ecology of a reintroduced population of the Asian Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon in Shaanxi Qianhu National Wetland Park, China	5
Trends in the area of suitable breeding habitat for the Endangered Lake Titicaca Grebe Rollandia microptera, 2001–2020	5
The importance of landscape heterogeneity and vegetation structure for the conservation of the Ortolan BuntingEmberiza hortulana	5
Spatial and temporal differences in migration strategies among endangered European Greater Spotted Eagles Clanga clanga	5
Assessing the potential disturbance effects on the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) for European vultures research: a review and conservation recommendations	5
Reduction of organic waste in a landfill lowers the visitation probability but not the local abundance of a long-lived scavenger species	5

Breeding dispersal movements of Dupont’s LarkChersophilus dupontiin fragmented landscape	5
Potential importance of wind patterns and guidance opportunities for the conservation of the Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus in Italy	5
Demographic consequences of management actions for the successful reintroduction of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia to the UK	5
Eradication of a highly invasive bird, the Common MynaAcridotheres tristis, facilitates the establishment of insurance populations of island endemic birds	5
Current status of Great Bustard Otis tarda in Turkey: population size, distribution, movements, and threats	4
The expansion of olive groves is reducing habitat suitability for the Great Bustard Otis tarda and the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax in Southern Spain: could Important Bird Areas (IBAs) r	4
Live wild bird exports from West Africa: insights into recent trade from monitoring social media	4
Brood parasitism leads to zero recruitment in the globally endangered Yellow CardinalGubernatrix cristata	4
Phylogenetic placement and life history trait imputation for Grenada DoveLeptotila wellsi	4
The effects of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor?	4
Predation of nesting Thick-billed Parrots Rhychopsitta pachyrhyncha by bobcats in northwestern Mexico	4
Global population and conservation status of the Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus	4
Exploring potential reasons for the increase in the East Asian Greylag GooseAnser anserpopulation by assessing habitat use and use of protected areas	4
Bridled Quail-doveGeotrygon mystaceapopulation assessment after hurricanes Irma and Maria, St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands	4
Drastic decline in the endemic brown shrike subspecies Lanius cristatus superciliosus in Japan	4
The state of breeding birds in Greece: trends, threats, and implications for conservation	4
Short-term impact of an extreme weather event on the threatened Dupont’s LarkChersophilus duponti	4
Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja nest activity patterns: Potential ecotourism and conservation opportunities in the Amazon Forest	4
Trends and population estimate of the threatened Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficolliswintering in coastal grasslands of southern Brazil	4
Incidental capture of seabirds in Argentinean side-haul trawlers	4
Movement ecology of the threatened Campo MinerGeositta poecilopteraand its implications for the conservation of tropical open grassland birds	3
Marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas in the Chagos Archipelago	3
Nest microclimate and heat stress in African Penguins Spheniscus demersus breeding on Bird Island, South Africa	3
Compounding and complementary carnivores: Australian bird species eaten by the introduced European red fox Vulpes vulpes and domestic cat Felis catus	3
Range-wide changes in the North American Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata breeding population over 115 years	3
Insights into migratory connectivity and conservation concerns of Red Knots Calidris canutus in the austral Pacific coast of the Americas	3
The recently discovered Principe Scops-owl is highly threatened: distribution, habitat associations, and population estimates	3
Evaluating the breeding phenology of the endangered ‘a‘o (Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli) on Kaua‘i to better focus conservation actions and management decisions	3
Seasonal and daily activity patterns by Eleonora’s FalconFalco eleonoraebased on GPS telemetry: a contribution to the species’ movement ecology at its breeding grounds	3
Guiding local-scale management to improve the conservation of endangered populations: the example of Bonelli’s EagleAquila fasciata	3
Status of endemic reed-warblers of the Mariana Islands, with emphasis on conservation strategies for the endangered Nightingale Reed-warbler	3
Abundance and habitat associations of the globally endangered Giant NuthatchSitta magnain Southern Shan State, Myanmar	3
Population status, habitat preference and distribution of Bristled GrassbirdChaetornis striatain Bangladesh	3
The dynamics of songbird ownership and community interconnectedness in Singapore	3
European GoldfinchesCarduelis carduelisas pets in Algeria: numbers and social dimension of a conservation issue	3
Avifauna and biogeographical affinities of acarrasco-dominated landscape in north-eastern Brazil: providing baseline data for future monitoring	3
The effect of shade tree species on bird communities in central Kenyan coffee farms	3
Reported mortality of Griffon VultureGyps fulvusin central Italy and indications for conservation and management	3
The effects of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor? – CORRIGENDUM	2
Tree characteristics, microhabitat and edge effect in plantations govern European Turtle-doveStreptopelia turturnest habitat selection at the edge of Sahara: implications for conservation of a	2
Biased adult sex ratios in Western Europe populations of Little BustardTetrax tetraxas a potential warning signal of unbalanced mortalities	2
Demographic composition, post-release and natal dispersal, and breeding success of the reintroduced Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana	2
Assessing spatial dispersion, abundance, and conservation perspectives of Military MacawAra militarispopulations in Mexico	2
Status and habitat description of the globally threatened Udzungwa Forest PartridgeXenoperdix udzungwensisthirty years after discovery	2
Changing fortunes of the Black-winged Petrel Pterodroma nigripennis following the Lord Howe Island Rodent Eradication Project - interactions with other recovering species	2
Movement ecology of pre-adult Cinereous Vultures Aegypius monachus: insights from a reintroduced population	2
Distribution and habitat use of the Madagascar Peregrine Falcon: first estimates for area of habitat and population size	2
Importation of plastic fragments into a seabird colony: accident or design, threat or benign?	2
Recent trends in populations of Critically Endangered Gyps vultures in India	2
Evidence of the effectiveness of conservation interventions from long-term aerial monitoring of three crane species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2

Alarming decline of the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax in one of its two population strongholds in Sardinia, Italy	2
Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata population decline at a nickel-mining site: a critical need for adapted conservation strategies	2
Ecological and environmental factors affecting the foraging activity of the White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis (Hume, 1878) in Bhutan	2
Modelling suitable breeding habitat and GAP analysis for the endangered Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus: implications for conservation	2
The impact of timber harvesting on nest site availability for the Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus in native Southern Mistbelt forests of the Eastern Cape, South Africa	2
Does anthropogenic fragmentation selectively filter avian phylogenetic diversity in a critically endangered forest system?	2
Migration routes and stepping stones along the western flyway of Lesser White-fronted Geese (Anser erythropus)	2
Raptor migration at Guantouling, south-west China: phenology, weather influence and persecution pressure	2
Tall trees drive the nest-site selection of wild Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon	2
A review of the conservation status of Black Stork Ciconia nigra in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini	2
Assessing the trade of Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus in the USA	1
Passive acoustic monitoring detects new records of globally threatened birds in a high-elevation wetland (Free State, South Africa)	1
Long-term size and range changes of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus population in the Balkans: a review – CORRIGENDUM	1
Low juvenile survival threatens the Black Stork Ciconia nigra in northern Europe	1
Spix’s Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii (Wagler, 1832) population viability analysis	1
Rangeland loss and population decline of the critically endangered Liben LarkHeteromirafra archeriin southern Ethiopia	1
Review of historical breeding sites of the Northern Bald IbisGeronticus eremitain Syria and south-eastern Turkey	1
Cropland can support high bird diversity in heterogeneous rural tropical landscapes	1
Assessment of long-term trends in a threatened grassland bird community using daily bird lists	1
The two extinctions of the Carolina ParakeetConuropsis carolinensis	1
Local ecological knowledge and regional sighting histories of Hainan Peacock-pheasant Polyplectron katsumatae: pessimism or optimism for a threatened island endemic?	1
Using acoustic recording units to investigate the effects of logging of indigenous trees in the Amathole forests, South Africa on Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus breeding and the presence of t	1
Another emerging threat to birds: avian mortality estimates from roadside transparent noise barrier collisions in South Korea	1
The Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi is in imminent danger of extinction	1
Giant NuthatchSitta magnadensity and habitat association in a potential stronghold in northern Thailand	1
Space use and site fidelity in the endangered Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita: Effects of age, season, and sex	1
Understanding habitat use of the Endangered Alligator Rivers Yellow Chat Epthianura crocea tunneyi to inform monitoring and management	1
A distance sampling survey of the Critically Endangered Straw-headed BulbulPycnonotus zeylanicusin Singapore	1
How do people in the “Land of Hornbills” perceive Hornbills?	1
Combining tracking with at-sea surveys to improve occurrence and distribution estimates of two threatened seabirds in Peru	1
Population decline of the Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis in continental Spain, a main western Palearctic stronghold	1
Estimating the conservation cost of the projected new international Lisbon airport for migratory shorebirds of the Tagus estuary, Portugal	1
Seabird bycatch vulnerability in pelagic longline fisheries based on modelling of a long-term dataset	1
Environmental effects on reproduction in a managed population of the harvested and Endangered Saker Falcon Falco cherrug	1
Range-wide and regional distribution of the Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus and effects of disturbance on local abundances	1
Habitat selection and ontogeny of habitat use by juvenile Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia revealed by GPS tracking	1
Improving national bird population estimates in Europe: insights from comparisons with atlas abundance data	1
Breeding and global population sizes of the Critically Endangered Red-fronted MacawAra rubrogenysrevisited	1
Forest raptor nest selection traits in Mediterranean forest (Maamora, North Africa): conservation implications	1
Birds and Natura 2000: a review of the scientific literature	1
The endangered Brown Shrike subspecies Lanius cristatus superciliosus has a male-biased sex ratio and only early arriving males are paired	1
Conservation of the surface-nesting Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta neglecta in the South Pacific: clarifying breeding ecology and the threat of avian ground predators	1
Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus abundance estimates at four globally significant colonies	1
Habitat selection and population status of breeding Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China	1
The effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on the relative abundance and conservation of Southern Black Korhaan Afrotis afra, a South African endemic	1