OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Ornithology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Seasonal dynamics in the exploitation of natural carcasses and supplementary feeding stations by a top avian scavenger	17
Breeding latitude is associated with the timing of nesting and migration around the annual calendar among Purple Martin (Progne subis) populations	15
An iconic messenger of climate change? Predicting the range dynamics of the European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)	14
Dispersal and philopatry in Central European Red Kites Milvus milvus	14
Common patterns in the molecular phylogeography of western palearctic birds: a comprehensive review	13
Seasonal differences in migration strategies of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) wintering in Spain	12
Drone-conducted counts as a tool for the rapid assessment of productivity of Sandwich Terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis)	12
Chemical analysis reveals sex differences in the preen gland secretion of breeding Blue Tits	10
Fifteen days are enough to estimate home-range size in some long-lived resident eagles	10
Aspects of the feeding ecology of introduced Rose-ringed Parakeets Psittacula krameri in the urban landscape mosaic of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	10
Birds of the Juruá River: extensive várzea forest as a barrier to terra firme birds	9
Population history of the Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola) supports Plio-Pleistocene diversification in the Amazon and shows a recent connection with the Atlantic Forest	9
Functional morphology of the forelimb musculature reflects flight and foraging styles in aquatic birds	9
Reed die-back and conservation of small reed birds at Lake Neusiedl, Austria	8
Community engagement and data quality: best practices and lessons learned from a citizen science project on birdsong	8
Migration strategy, site fidelity and population size of the globally threatened Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius	8
The level of water in the river flowing through the breeding site shapes the body condition of a lekking bird—the Great Snipe Gallinago media	8
Ranging behaviour and habitat use in Montagu’s Harrier Circus pygargus in extensive farmland of Eastern Poland	8
Effects of temperature and season on birds’ dawn singing behavior in a forest of eastern China	8
A new passeriform (Aves: Passeriformes) from the early Oligocene of Poland sheds light on the beginnings of Suboscines	8
Effects of elevated nest box temperature on incubation behaviour and offspring fitness-related traits in the Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis	7
Effects of local climate and habitat heterogeneity on breeding-bird assemblages of semi-natural grasslands	7
Differences in transcription regulation of diurnal metabolic support to physiologically contrasting seasonal life-history states in migratory songbirds	7
Underestimated scale of songbird offshore migration across the south-eastern North Sea during autumn	7
Birds and the ‘Post Tower’ in Bonn: a case study of light pollution	7

Migration routes and timing of European Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breeding in eastern Mongolia	6
Guidelines for appropriate use of BirdNET scores and other detector outputs	6
Back to the future: does previously grown ornamental colouration in male House Finches reveal mate quality at the time of pair formation?	6
Kites Milvus migrans lineatus (Milvus migrans migrans/lineatus) are spreading west across Europe	6
Differences in foraging behaviour of a migrating shorebird at stopover sites on regulated and unregulated sections of a large European lowland river	6
The presence of an invasive bird, the Common Starling, in an urban landscape: habitat use and relationships with other bird species	6
Strong evidence supporting a relationship between colour pattern and apparent survival in common crossbills	6
Markov dependencies in the song syntax of Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)	6
Both morphological and behavioral traits predict interspecific social dominance in birds	6
Highly diversified habitats and resources influence habitat selection in wintering shorebirds	6
Cross the sea where it is narrowest: migrations of Pacific Swifts (Apus pacificus) between Sakhalin (Russia) and Australia	6
Agriculture induces isotopic shifts and niche contraction in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris) of the Colorado Desert	6
Nidicolous beetle species richness is driven by Barn Owl’s nests occupancy and landscape structure	6
Blood plasma biochemistry and the effects of age, sex, and captivity in Short-toed Snake Eagles (Circaetus gallicus)	6
Seasonal and diurnal variation of vocal behaviour in duetting White-browed Sparrow Weavers	6
Flight altitudes and flight activities of adult Red Kites (Milvus milvus) in the breeding area as determined by GPS telemetry	6
Revealing different migration strategies in a Baltic Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) population with light-level geolocators	5
Predominant role of survival on the population dynamics of a threatened species: evidence from prospective analyses and implication for hunting regulation	5
Head and body orientation of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia during incubation: effect of wind, apex predators and power lines	5
Contrasting use of space by two migratory Afro-Palearctic warblers on their African non-breeding grounds	5
Vocal behavior and microgeographic variation in song types in a Neotropical songbird	5
Fuel management, stopover duration and potential flight range of pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca staying in South-West France during autumn migration	5
The European Turtle Dove in the ecotone between woodland and farmland: multi-scale habitat associations and implications for the design of management interventions	5
First insights into migration routes and nonbreeding sites used by Red-rumped Swallows (Cecropis daurica rufula) breeding in the Iberian Peninsula	5
Win – and stay, but not too long: cavity selection by Boreal Owls to minimize nest predation by Pine Marten	5
Female plumage polymorphism is rare in hummingbirds	5
The impact of Sosnowsky’s Hogweed on feeding guilds of birds	4
Great and blue tit laying dates vary with fine-scale variation in local tree composition but not tree budburst	4
Apparent survival and dispersal in a recovered Osprey population: effects of age, sex and social status	4
Diet of nestling Barn Swallows in an agroecosystem: insights from fecal DNA barcoding and feather stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N)	4
Low activities of digestive enzymes in the guts of herbivorous grouse (Aves: Tetraoninae)	4
Cranium of an Eocene/Oligocene pheasant-sized galliform bird from western North America, with the description of a vascular autapomorphy of the Galliformes	4
Validation of a non-invasive technique for quantifying a stress-associated biomarker in a southern African hornbill	4
Variable or atypical? Comparing unusual songs of the Tufted Titmouse with a citizen-science database	4
How urban and rural birds respond to the colour of bird feeders?	4
Female song in the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca	4
Differential spatial migration programmes are both sex and age specific for migratory great cormorants	4
Weather conditions determine reproductive success of a ground-nesting bird of prey in natural dune grasslands	4
Extra-pair paternity in a species with frequent extra-pair courtship feedings, few extra-pair copulations, and male-biased parental care	4
No evidence that nest site choice in Pied Flycatchers is mediated by assessing the clutch size of a heterospecific, the Great Tit	4
Accelerating decline of an important wintering population of the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea at Sonadia Island, Bangladesh	4
Brood survival in the Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio in eastern Poland	4
Extent and symmetry of tail moult in Amur Falcons	4
Experimental reduction of a nest ectoparasite affects mouth coloration of nestling Cliff Swallows Petrochelidon pyrrhonota	4
The role of avian frugivores in the germination and dispersal of fleshy-fruited Ficus species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	4
The uropygial gland of the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo): I. Morphology	4
Soaring and intermittent flap-gliding during migratory flights of Northern Bald Ibis	4
Phylogeography, morphology and ecological niche modelling to explore the evolutionary history of Azure-crowned Hummingbird (Amazilia cyanocephala, Trochilidae) in Mesoamerica	4
Sex-specific growth of nestlings of the Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida, a species with sexual size dimorphism and female brood desertion	4
Call rate in Common Cuckoos does not predict body size and responses to conspecific playbacks	4

Breeding parameters and factors influencing the reproduction of an expanding Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus) population under high breeding density conditions	4
Sexual division of nestling parental care in the Pale-breasted Thrush (Turdus leucomelas)	4
Azure-winged Magpies Cyanopica cyanus passed the tasks on the Uzgiris-Hunt scale of object permanence	3
Leukocyte profile variation in Dupont’s Lark (Chersophilus duponti) in Spain and Morocco	3
Which birds participate in mass concentrations of Bramblings Fringilla montifringilla?—Ring recoveries, biometry, age and sex composition	3
Stopover-site feather isotopes uncover African non-breeding grounds of migratory passerines	3
Bird species use of Tapinanthus dodoneifolius mistletoes parasitising African locust bean trees Parkia biglobosa in Amurum Forest Reserve, Nigeria	3
Gulls of a feather do not sleep whenever—circadian rhythm of activity of black-headed gulls Chroicocephalus ridibundus during the incubation period	3
On the search for grasslands: long distance dispersal of spring-staging Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) from a farmland area in Southeast Denmark	3
The role of ecological and geographical drivers of lineage diversification in the Squirrel cuckoo Piaya cayana in Mexico: a mitochondrial DNA perspective	3
The effects of temporally distinct light pollution from ships on nocturnal colony attendance in a threatened seabird	3
Diversification across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec explains the phylogeographic arrangement of the widespread bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus; Tyrannidae) and reveals the existence of two major	3
Long-term trends of local bird populations based on monitoring schemes: are they suitable for justifying management measures?	3
Sex bias in parental care is associated with brood age and fledglings’ growth rate in Western Bluebirds Sialia mexicana	3
Essential amino acid requirements of granivorous and omnivorous songbirds and the provision of natural foods	3
Does prey abundance affect prey size selection by the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo)?	3
The extent of white plumage patches in female Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca is negatively associated with corticosterone concentration in partly unpigmented feathers	3
Moult of overwintering Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix in an annual-cycle perspective	3
First documentation of vocal mimicry in female northern mockingbirds	3
Stable isotopes (δ2H) in feathers identify non-breeding origins of the endangered Jankowski’s Bunting	3
Disentangling the taxonomic status and phylogeographic structure of Marmora’s (Curruca sarda) and Balearic Warbler (Curruca balearica): a genetic multi-marker approach	3
How common is hybridization in birds?	3
Regime shift and changes in sediment morphology driven by sea level rise affect abundance of migratory waders	3
Contrasting patterns of natal dispersal of a south temperate House Wren population at local and regional scales	3
Age, season and sex influence juvenile dispersal in the Iberian cinereous vultures (Aegypius monachus)	3
Non-breeding sites, loop migration and flight activity patterns over the annual cycle in the Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor from a north-western edge of its range	3
Anting behavior in birds: the behavioral patterns and the interactions with ants in the subgenus Dendrolasius of the genus Lasius	3
Importance of shallow river topography for inland breeding Common Terns	3
Size-assortative mating in a long-lived monogamous seabird	3
A phasianid bird from the Pleistocene of Tainan: the very first avian fossil from Taiwan	3
The effect of daylight exposure on the immune response and body condition of Great Tit nestlings	3
Woodpecker populations in winter in the interior of the European continent are highly dependent on climate change and its consequences	3
Kea, bird of versatility. Kea parrots (Nestor notabilis) show high behavioural flexibility in solving a demonstrated sequence task	3
Changing places: spatial ecology and social interactions of female and male Montagu’s Harrier (Circus pygargus) in the Spanish Extremadura	3
Protecting a heterogeneous landscape supports avian diversity across seasons on a Mediterranean island	3
Unusual pattern of skipped or shortened moulting of flight feathers in late-breeding Common Shelducks	3
Exposure to sulfur in soil explains pigmentation by pheomelanin in birds inhabiting Iceland	3
Incubation behaviour of the Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula at different latitudes	3
Predation risk and landscape properties shape reproductive output of an endangered sea duck from two subpopulations with contrasting predation risk	3
Female and male body condition in the Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida, a species with female offspring desertion: a test of the differential parental capacity hypothesis	3