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Volume 16 Issue 4, December 2025
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A systematic review of avian response to urbanization in China: Research trends, current insights, and future directions
Xingmin Chen, Yanping Wang
Published: 16 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100292
Research Article | Open Access
Modeling the effects of urban park 3D environmental features on bird diversity with interpretable machine learning: A case study of Harbin, northeastern China
Chenyang Ding, Jiaqi Cai, Yuandong Hu, Yuxuan Liang
Published: 26 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100304
Research Article | Open Access
Multidimensional nestedness patterns and underlying processes of bird assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China
Yunhao Xu, Huiwen Zhu, Xingmin Chen, [...], Jiang Wang, Yanping Wang << Fewer
Published: 29 July 2025
2025, 16(4): 100284
Research Article | Open Access
Avian phylogenetic and functional diversity and their influencing factors in urban parks of Nanjing, China
Qihuan He, Xu Jiang, Yinuo Feng, [...], Jie Shao, Xingchang Yang, Xueru Yang, Xinwei Tan, Yanping Wang << Fewer
Published: 07 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100289
Research Article | Open Access
Chinese provincial-level new records for 96 resident bird species reveal poleward range shifts
Shengxi Chen, Zhehao Chen, Hongtao Lin, [...], Haoting Duan, Jiehua Yu, Jiekun He << Fewer
Published: 17 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100310
Research Article | Open Access
How many birds are there in Guangdong Province, China?
Daojian Chen, Xiaohui Gao, Min Zhang, [...], Xianli Che, Qiang Zhang, Daniel R. Gustafsson, Zhengzhen Wang, Anders P. Møller, Alexandra Grossi, Fasheng Zou << Fewer
Published: 01 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100305
Research Article | Open Access
Importance of surrounding landscape features in explaining wintering waterbird diversity and community assembly in Jiangsu’s inland lake wetlands
Haoteng Zhang, Lijun Xiao, Zixi Zhao, [...], Shenglai Yin, Yong Zhang << Fewer
Published: 26 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100295
Research Article | Open Access
Density dependence and weather drive dabbling duck spatiotemporal distributions and intercontinental migration
Benjamin Golas, Diann J. Prosser, Andrew M. Ramey, [...], Paul Link, Wayne E. Thogmartin << Fewer
Published: 26 July 2025
2025, 16(4): 100281
Research Article | Open Access
Strengthening flyway conservation through NGOs’ engagement: Case of Hanns Seidel foundation
Hyun-Ah Choi, Bernhard Seliger
Published: 07 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100287
Research Article | Open Access
Swan Project promotes citizen science initiative through a public bird migration tracking
Tetsuo Shimada, Kan Konishi, Guozheng Li, [...], Guodong Shi, Hiroyoshi Higuchi << Fewer
Published: 04 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100298
Research Article | Open Access
Impacts of prolonged dry season and artificial food supply on the wintering spatial distribution of Siberian Cranes: Implications for conservation
Deming Shen, Fawen Qian, Shaoxia Xia, [...], Chaoyang Wang, Xu Chu, Zhenyu Wang, Hongxing Jiang, Yankuo Li << Fewer
Published: 10 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100308
Research Article | Open Access
The predictable HPAI H5 outbreaks in European wild birds
Shenglai Yin, Qiaojia Xie, Taej Mundkur, [...], Yufei Wu, Hongliang Chai, Qiang Wu, Zheng Y.X. Huang << Fewer
Published: 22 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100311
Research Article | Open Access
Duets encode morphological information from both partners in Rufous Horneros
Pedro Diniz, Paulo S. Amorim
Published: 25 July 2025
2025, 16(4): 100282
Research Article | Open Access
Quantifying avian wing shapes: Evaluating indices, their relationships, and ecological correlates
Jiahui Li, Canwei Xia
Published: 25 July 2025
2025, 16(4): 100283
Research Article | Open Access
Rapid male plumage evolution drives sexual dichromatism in Ficedula flycatchers
Lijun Gao, Yueyao Wang, Zheng Li, Lu Dong
Published: 08 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100288
Research Article | Open Access
The product of head height and head width is a strong predictor of brain mass in birds
Yuran Liu, Baisalbayeva Rakhima, Yidong Wei, [...], Jinmei Liu, Wei Liang << Fewer
Published: 14 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100291
Research Article | Open Access
Effects of individual and group factors on the social relationships of Budgerigars
Xueqi Zhao, Jiangping Yu, Jie Su, [...], Manxi Lu, Chunguang Dong, Xiyu Wang, Haitao Wang << Fewer
Published: 06 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100286
Research Article | Open Access
Visual cues modulate nest defense behavior in Japanese Tits: Insights from the appearance, posture and size of snake dummies
Dake Yin, Jiangping Yu, Romain Lorrillière, [...], Jiangping Jin, Mingju E, Longru Jin, Haitao Wang << Fewer
Published: 12 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100290
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Escape behaviors of the Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) across China: Northern populations are bolder than southern populations
Yidong Wei, Yuran Liu, Kangning Luo, [...], Qiqi Liu, Fangfang Zhang, Weihui Xing, Caizhen Wen, Jinmei Liu, Wei Liang << Fewer
Published: 23 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100296
Research Article | Open Access
Phylogenetic relatedness overshadows acoustic similarity to regulate responses toward unfamiliar mobbing calls in Masked Laughingthrushes
Yuqi Sun, Changjian Fu, Yumeng Zhao, [...], Zhiyang Ding, Miaomiao Lai, Zhongqiu Li << Fewer
Published: 06 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100299
Research Article | Open Access
Parental phenotypes and breeding performance: a review of non-experimental investigation in well-studied Western palearctic tits and flycatchers
Marcel M. Lambrechts, D. Charles Deeming
Published: 18 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100300
Research Article | Open Access
Dynamic evolution of olfactory receptor genes in the Turkey Vulture and Black Vulture
Joni E. Wright, Edward L. Braun, J Gordon Burleigh, Rebecca T. Kimball
Published: 05 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100285
Research Article | Open Access
Canalization of globins in the adaptive evolution of birds
Xiaojia Zhu, Le Yang, Quanjian Tao, [...], Xiran Wang, Ghulam Nabi, Fumin Lei, Xiaoping Yu, Dongming Li << Fewer
Published: 19 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100293
Research Article | Open Access
Metagenomic insights into the geographic divergence and functional adaptation of gut microbiota in the endangered Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus)
Riya Wu, Shengxian He, Chen Zhang, [...], Keping Sun, Longru Jin, Haitao Wang << Fewer
Published: 03 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100297
Research Article | Open Access
Effects of night lighting on avian cognitive function: Mechanisms involving neurodegeneration, metabolic dysregulation and neuroinflammatory responses
Xiaoqian Li, Zeru Gong, Na Zhu, Shuping Zhang
Published: 23 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100303
Research Article | Open Access
Birds of a feather: Comprehensive plumage colour analysis for a revised subspecies classification of the Chestnut-winged Babbler (Cyanoderma erythropterum) species complex
Shen Han Teo, Yong Chee Keita Sin, Mayjean Marie Ines Nieves, Frank E. Rheindt
Published: 04 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100307
Research Article | Open Access
Species status and genetic isolation in the Subalpine Warbler complex: Insights from mitochondrial DNA analysis
Utku Perktaş, Andrew G. Gosler
Published: 19 August 2025
2025, 16(4): 100294
Research Article | Open Access
Step-by-step to success: Multi-stage learning driven robust audiovisual fusion network for fine-grained bird species classification
Shanshan Xie, Jiangjian Xie, Yang Liu, [...], Lianshuai Sha, Ye Tian, Jiahua Dong, Diwen Liang, Kaijun Pan, Junguo Zhang << Fewer
Published: 24 July 2025
2025, 16(4): 100280
Research Article | Open Access
Waterbird image recognition using lightweight deep learning in wetland environment
Qingquan Huang, Changchun Zhang, Chunhe Hu, [...], Jiangjian Xie, Yuan Wang, Junguo Zhang << Fewer
Published: 04 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100306
Erratum | Open Access
Corrigendum to “Swan Project promotes citizen science initiative through a public bird migration tracking” [Avian Res. 16 (2025) 100298]
Tetsuo Shimada, Kan Konishi, Guozheng Li, [...], Guodong Shi, Hiroyoshi Higuchi << Fewer
Published: 22 September 2025
2025, 16(4): 100302
Erratum | Open Access
Corrigendum to “Shallow water habitats provide high-quality foraging environments for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper at a critical staging site” [Avian Res. 16 (2025) 100233]
Lili Sun, Hongyan Yang, Xiuyuan Lu, [...], Ting Fu, Jia Guo, Sicheng Ren, Waner Liang, Qing Chen, Dongming Li, Theunis Piersma, Nicola Crockford, Yifei Jia, Guangchun Lei << Fewer
Published: 17 October 2025
2025, 16(4): 100309