| Global biodiversity: indicators of recent declines SHM Butchart, M Walpole, B Collen, A Van Strien, JPW Scharlemann, ... Science 328 (5982), 1164-1168, 2010 | 6399 | 2010 |
| Decline of the North American avifauna KV Rosenberg, AM Dokter, PJ Blancher, JR Sauer, AC Smith, PA Smith, ... Science 366 (6461), 120-124, 2019 | 2650 | 2019 |
| Monitoring bird populations by point counts CJ Ralph, JR Sauer, S Droege Pacific Southwest Research Station, 1995 | 1709* | 1995 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966–2015 JR Sauer, JE Hines, JE Fallon, KL Pardieck, DJ Ziolkowski Jr, WA Link Version 2 (201), 7, 2017 | 1205* | 2017 |
| 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 | 1189 | 1989 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966-2004 JR Sauer, JE Hines, J Fallon Version 6, 2006, 2005 | 1094* | 2005 |
| 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 | 886 | 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 | 818 | 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 | 716 | 1998 |
| 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 | 567 | 2002 |
| Observer differences in the North American breeding bird survey JR Sauer, BG Peterjohn, WA Link The Auk 111 (1), 50-62, 1994 | 561 | 1994 |
| 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 | 555 | 1999 |
| 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 | 490 | 1999 |
| Generalized procedures for testing hypotheses about survival or recovery rates JR Sauer, BK Williams The Journal of Wildlife Management, 137-142, 1989 | 465 | 1989 |
| The North American breeding bird survey JR Sauer, JE Hines, J Fallon, KL Pardieck, DJ Ziolkowski Jr, WA Link Results and analysis 2003, 1966 | 432* | 1966 |
| The North American breeding bird survey 1966–2011: summary analysis and species accounts JR Sauer, WA Link, JE Fallon, KL Pardieck, DJ Ziolkowski Jr North American Fauna, 1-32, 2013 | 431 | 2013 |
| 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 | 429 | 1989 |
| The North American breeding bird survey results and analysis JR Sauer, JE Hines, G Gough, I Thomas, BG Peterjohn Version 96 (4), 1997 | 417 | 1997 |
| The North American breeding bird survey, results and analysis 1966-2007 JR Sauer, JE Hines, J Fallon Version 5 (15), 2008, 2008 | 415 | 2008 |
| Using landscape ecology to test hypotheses about large‐scale abundance patterns in migratory birds CH Flather, JR Sauer Ecology 77 (1), 28-35, 1996 | 409 | 1996 |
