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Birds

Birds are a diverse class of warm-blooded vertebrates (Aves) distinguished by feathers, beaks without teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, and, in most species, the capacity for flight. With many thousands of species occupying habitats across the globe, birds fill a wide range of ecological…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 21× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Birds are a diverse class of warm-blooded vertebrates (Aves) distinguished by feathers, beaks without teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, and, in most species, the capacity for flight. With many thousands of species occupying habitats across the globe, birds fill a wide range of ecological roles, acting as pollinators, seed dispersers, predators, and scavengers, and they hold considerable cultural, economic, and aesthetic significance. Their study, ornithology, encompasses anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, evolution, and conservation, as well as applied work on domesticated and managed species. The International Journal of Ornithology publishes research across these areas, including studies of postnatal growth in wild mallard ducks based on capture-recapture data, the flight performance of young racing pigeons in training, the integration of evolutionary and functional perspectives in studying birds in converted habitats, and the distribution of the Burmese spotted dove in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to birds, their biology and behavior, and their ecological and applied significance.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 21 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Ornithology.

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