A decadal review of urban ornithology and a prospectus for the future

Extinction of experience: the loss of human-nature interactions

(2016) Masashi Soga et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Food shortage affects reproduction of Feral PigeonsColumba liviaat rearing of nestlings

(2016) Birte Stock et al.   IBIS

Do natural areas in urban landscapes support successful reproduction by a group of conservation priority birds?

(2015) V. L. Buxton et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

ARTHROPOD PHOTOTAXIS AND ITS POSSIBLE EFFECT ON BIRD STRIKE RISK AT TWO NAMIBIAN AIRPORTS

(2015) M.L. HAUPTFLEISCH   APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Importance of inherent suitability, behavioural flexibility and competitiveness in occupancy of urban parks by an endemic honeyeater

(2015) Alan Lill et al.   Avian Biology Research

Singing in the city: high song frequencies are no guarantee for urban success in birds

(2015) Maria Moiron et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Effects of urbanization on bird phenology: a continental study of paired urban and rural populations

(2015) AP Møller et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Urban residents' perceptions of birds in the neighborhood: Biodiversity, cultural ecosystem services, and disservices

(2015) J. Amy Belaire et al.   CONDOR

Characterizing avian survival along a rural-to-urban land use gradient

(2015) Brian S. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta-analysis of factors determining intra-urban biodiversity variation

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Common Myna (Sturnus tristis) in urban, rural and semi-rural areas in Greater Sydney and its surrounds

(2015) Julie M. Old et al.   EMU

Is supplementary feeding in gardens a driver of evolutionary change in a migratory bird species?

(2015) Kate E. Plummer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Urbanized birds have superior establishment success in novel environments

(2015) Anders Pape Møller et al.   OECOLOGIA

Light pollution alters the phenology of dawn and dusk singing in common European songbirds

(2015) A. Da Silva et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Supplementary feeding restructures urban bird communities

(2015) Josie A. Galbraith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ISOLATION AND MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC Escherichia coli AND Campylobacter jejuni IN FERAL PIGEONS FROM AN URBAN AREA IN THE CITY OF LIMA, PERU

(2015) Moisés CABALLERO et al.   REVISTA DO INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DE SAO PAULO

A broad scale analysis of tree risk, mitigation and potential habitat for cavity-nesting birds

(2015) Brian Kane et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

The Effects of habitat area, vegetation structure and insect richness on breeding bird populations in Beijing urban parks

(2015) Yue Huang et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

A cross-continental look at the patterns of avian species diversity and composition across an urbanisation gradient

(2015) Barbara Clucas et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

An Ecosystem-Service Approach to Evaluate the Role of Non-Native Species in Urbanized Wetlands

(2015) Rita Yam et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The causal response of avian communities to suburban development: a quasi-experimental, longitudinal study

(2015) John M. Marzluff et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Window collisions by migratory bird species: urban geographical patterns and habitat associations

(2015) Marine Cusa et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Virulence genes, antibiotic resistance and integrons inEscherichia colistrains isolated from synanthropic birds from Spain

(2014) C. Sacristán et al.   AVIAN PATHOLOGY

Enhancing urban biodiversity and its influence on city-dwellers: An experiment

(2014) Assaf Shwartz et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Annual and seasonal survival of adult female Mottled Ducks in southern Florida, USA

(2014) Dana M. Varner et al.   CONDOR

Bird–building collisions in the United States: Estimates of annual mortality and species vulnerability

(2014) Scott R. Loss et al.   CONDOR

Urbanisation tolerance and the loss of avian diversity

(2014) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Developmental impairment in eurasian dipper nestlings exposed to urban stream pollutants

(2014) Christy A. Morrissey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Does urban life change blood oxidative status in birds?

(2014) D. Costantini et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Effect of an ultrasonic device on the behaviour and the stress hormone corticosterone in feral pigeons

(2014) Susanne Jenni-Eiermann et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Raptor Presence Along an Urban–Wildland Gradient: Influences of Prey Abundance and Land Cover

(2014) Stan Rullman et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Anthropogenic electromagnetic noise disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird

(2014) Svenja Engels et al.   NATURE

Relative Roles of Grey Squirrels, Supplementary Feeding, and Habitat in Shaping Urban Bird Assemblages

(2014) Colin Bonnington et al.   PLoS One

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

(2014) M. F. J. Aronson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bird song diversity influences young people's appreciation of urban landscapes

(2014) Marcus Hedblom et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Light Pollution Allows the Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) to Feed Nestlings After Dark

(2014) Christine M. Stracey et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

150 years of changes in bird life in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1860 to 2012

(2014) Michael W. Strohbach et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

How much is that birdie in my backyard? A cross-continental economic valuation of native urban songbirds

(2014) Barbara Clucas et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Habitat associations of birds of prey in urban business parks

(2014) Jonathan R. Hogg et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Bird-window collisions in the summer breeding season

(2014) Stephen B. Hager et al.   PeerJ

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A new bully on the block: Does urbanization promote Bewick’s wren (Thryomanes bewickii) aggressive exclusion of Pacific wrens (Troglodytes pacificus)?

(2013) Laura S. Farwell et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Consequences of urbanizing landscapes to reproductive performance of birds in remnant forests

(2013) Amanda D. Rodewald et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

(2013) Ana Catarina Miranda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nesting and acoustic ecology, but not phylogeny, influence passerine urban tolerance

(2013) Gonçalo C. Cardoso   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Waterbird use of artificial wetlands in an Australian urban landscape

(2013) Christopher G. Murray et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Fearing the feline: domestic cats reduce avian fecundity through trait-mediated indirect effects that increase nest predation by other species

(2013) Colin Bonnington et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Housing Shortages in Urban Regions: Aggressive Interactions at Tree Hollows in Forest Remnants

(2013) Adrian Davis et al.   PLoS One

Long-Term Effects of Chronic Light Pollution on Seasonal Functions of European Blackbirds (Turdus merula)

(2013) Davide M. Dominoni et al.   PLoS One

Dietary breadth as a predictor of potential native avian–human conflict in urban landscapes

(2013) Kerry E. Charles et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States

(2013) Scott R. Loss et al.   Nature Communications

A Synthesis of Human-related Avian Mortality in Canada

(2013) Anna M. Calvert et al.   Avian Conservation and Ecology

Winter food provisioning reduces future breeding performance in a wild bird

(2013) K. E. Plummer et al.   Scientific Reports

Attitudes and actions toward birds in urban areas: Human cultural differences influence bird behavior

(2012)   AUK

Environmental and socio-economic factors related to urban bird communities

(2012) GARY W. LUCK et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Have we met before? Pigeons recognise familiar human faces

(2012) Claudia Stephan et al.   Avian Biology Research

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

(2012) Jonathan W. Atwell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities

(2012) Jason D. Fischer et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A Century of Avian Community Turnover in an Urban Green Space in Northern California

(2012)   CONDOR

Novel Flame Retardants in Urban-Feeding Ring-Billed Gulls from the St. Lawrence River, Canada

(2012) Marie-Line Gentes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hormones in the city: Endocrine ecology of urban birds

(2012) Frances Bonier   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

How Noisy Does a Noisy Miner Have to Be? Amplitude Adjustments of Alarm Calls in an Avian Urban ‘Adapter’

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   PLoS One

Wild birds recognize individual humans: experiments on magpies, Pica pica

(2011) Won Young Lee et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments

(2011) A. A. Maklakov et al.   Biology Letters

Plasma corticosterone of city and desert Curve-billed Thrashers, Toxostoma curvirostre, in response to stress-related peptide administration

(2011) H. Bobby Fokidis et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Relations between Urban Bird and Plant Communities and Human Well-Being and Connection to Nature

(2011) GARY W. LUCK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Does avian flight initiation distance indicate tolerance towards urban disturbance?

(2011) Tao Lin et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Evaluation of wires as deterrents for preventing house martin nesting on buildings

(2011) Jesús Duarte et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEST MANAGEMENT

Dusting-off the file: A review of knowledge on urban ornithology in Latin America

(2011) Rubén Ortega-Álvarez et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Wetlands as habitat in urbanizing landscapes: Patterns of bird abundance and occupancy

(2011) Richard A. McKinney et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Avian pox virus infection in a common barn owl (Tyto alba) in southern Brazil

(2011) Gilberto D. Vargas et al.   PESQUISA VETERINARIA BRASILEIRA

Flexibility in Animal Signals Facilitates Adaptation to Rapidly Changing Environments

(2011) Darren S. Proppe et al.   PLoS One

Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows

(2011) H. N. Cornell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bird diversity indicates ecological value in urban home prices

(2011) Michael C. Farmer et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Birds and Anthropogenic Noise: Are Urban Songs Adaptive?

(2010) Erwin Nemeth et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Lasting recognition of threatening people by wild American crows

(2010) John M. Marzluff et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Role of the Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) in the Decline of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in Britain

(2010) Christopher P. Bell et al.   AUK

The fitness benefit of association with humans: elevated success of birds breeding indoors

(2010) A. P. Moller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Artificial Night Lighting Affects Dawn Song, Extra-Pair Siring Success, and Lay Date in Songbirds

(2010) Bart Kempenaers et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Long-term dynamics of bird diversity in forest and suburb: decay, turnover or homogenization?

(2010) Carla P. Catterall et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Quantifying avian nest survival along an urbanization gradient using citizen- and scientist-generated data

(2010) Thomas B. Ryder et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Green Roofs as a Habitat for Birds: A Review

(2010) R. Fernandez- et al.   Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Does food supplementation really enhance productivity of breeding birds?

(2010) Timothy J. E. Harrison et al.   OECOLOGIA

Belled collars reduce catch of domestic cats in New Zealand by half

(2010) J. K. Gordon et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Species-specific Survival and Relative Habitat Use in an Urban Landscape during the Postfledging Period

(2009) Kara A. Whittaker et al.   AUK

A national scale inventory of resource provision for biodiversity within domestic gardens

(2009) Zoe G. Davies et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western Palearctic

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Effects of urbanisation on disease prevalence and age structure in blackbirdTurdus merulapopulations

(2009) Karl L. Evans et al.   OIKOS

Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows

(2009) A. Liker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Urban mockingbirds quickly learn to identify individual humans

(2009) D. J. Levey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species

(2009) K. L. Evans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The influence of bird information, attitudes, and demographics on public preferences toward urban green spaces: The case of Montpellier, France

(2009) S. Caula et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Architectural and Landscape Risk Factors Associated with Bird–glass Collisions in an Urban Environment

(2009) Daniel Klem et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Survival Rates and Lifetime Reproduction of Breeding Male Cooper's Hawks in Wisconsin, 1980–2005

(2009) Robert N. Rosenfield et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) Eggs from the Northeastern U.S.

(2008) Da Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

EVOLUTION ON A LOCAL SCALE: DEVELOPMENTAL, FUNCTIONAL, AND GENETIC BASES OF DIVERGENCE IN BILL FORM AND ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN SONG STRUCTURE BETWEEN ADJACENT HABITATS

(2008) Alexander V. Badyaev et al.   EVOLUTION

Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations

(2008) Gillian N Robb et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

(2008) KARL L. EVANS et al.   IBIS

Avian productivity in urban landscapes: a review and meta-analysis

(2008) D. E. CHAMBERLAIN et al.   IBIS

Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations

(2007) ANDREW P. HENDRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY