| Global biodiversity: indicators of recent declines SHM Butchart, M Walpole, B Collen, A Van Strien, JPW Scharlemann, ... Science 328 (5982), 1164-1168, 2010 | 5253 | 2010 |
| Monitoring bird populations by point counts CJ Ralph, JR Sauer, S Droege Pacific Southwest Research Station, 1995 | 1400* | 1995 |
| Decline of the North American avifauna KV Rosenberg, AM Dokter, PJ Blancher, JR Sauer, AC Smith, PA Smith, ... Science 366 (6461), 120-124, 2019 | 1231 | 2019 |
| Population declines in North American birds that migrate to the Neotropics. CS Robbins, JR Sauer, RS Greenberg, S Droege Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 86 (19), 7658-7662, 1989 | 1137 | 1989 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966-2015 J Sauer, D Niven, J Hines, D Ziolkowski Jr, KL Pardieck, JE Fallon, W Link | 1048* | 2017 |
| A double-observer approach for estimating detection probability and abundance from point counts JD Nichols, JE Hines, JR Sauer, FW Fallon, JE Fallon, PJ Heglund The Auk 117 (2), 393-408, 2000 | 796 | 2000 |
| Large scale wildlife monitoring studies: statistical methods for design and analysis KH Pollock, JD Nichols, TR Simons, GL Farnsworth, LL Bailey, JR Sauer Environmetrics: The official journal of the International Environmetrics …, 2002 | 707 | 2002 |
| Estimating species richness: the importance of heterogeneity in species detectability T Boulinier, JD Nichols, JR Sauer, JE Hines, KH Pollock Ecology 79 (3), 1018-1028, 1998 | 659 | 1998 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966-2000 JR Sauer, JE Hines, J Fallon Version 6, 2006, 2005 | 595 | 2005 |
| A removal model for estimating detection probabilities from point-count surveys GL Farnsworth, KH Pollock, JD Nichols, TR Simons, JE Hines, JR Sauer The Auk 119 (2), 414-425, 2002 | 526 | 2002 |
| Effects of landscape composition and wetland fragmentation on frog and toad abundance and species richness in Iowa and Wisconsin, USA MG Knutson, JR Sauer, DA Olsen, MJ Mossman, LM Hemesath, ... Conservation Biology 13 (6), 1437-1446, 1999 | 506 | 1999 |
| Observer differences in the North American breeding bird survey JR Sauer, BG Peterjohn, WA Link The Auk 111 (1), 50-62, 1994 | 506 | 1994 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966–2009 JR Sauer, JE Hines, JE Fallon, KL Pardieck, DJ Ziolkowski Jr, WA Link Version 3 (2011), 1966-2009, 2011 | 476 | 2011 |
| Population status of North American grassland birds from the North American breeding bird survey BG Peterjohn, JR Sauer Studies in avian biology 19, 27-44, 1999 | 473 | 1999 |
| Generalized procedures for testing hypotheses about survival or recovery rates JR Sauer, BK Williams The Journal of Wildlife Management, 137-142, 1989 | 446 | 1989 |
| Program CONTRAST: a general program for the analysis of several survival or recovery rate estimates JE Hines, JR Sauer US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1989 | 421 | 1989 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966-2007 JR Sauer, JE Hines, J Fallon Version 5 (15), 2008, 2008 | 408 | 2008 |
| The North American breeding bird survey results and analysis JR Sauer, JE Hines, G Gough, I Thomas, BG Peterjohn Version, 1997 | 406 | 1997 |
| Using landscape ecology to test hypotheses about large‐scale abundance patterns in migratory birds CH Flather, JR Sauer Ecology 77 (1), 28-35, 1996 | 391 | 1996 |
| Estimating population change from count data: application to the North American Breeding Bird Survey WA Link, JR Sauer Ecological applications 8 (2), 258-268, 1998 | 343 | 1998 |
