At present, the article publishing charge (APC) of the journal is covered by the sponsors, so authors do not need to pay an APC for articles accepted for publication in Avian Research.

The contents of Volumes 5-12 of Avian Research published with BMC can be found here. (https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles)
The journal was previously published under the title Chinese Birds (Volumes 1-4), and the contents can be found here. (http://www.chinesebirds.net)

Avian Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles covering all aspects of ornithology, including, but not limited to:
Conservation biology
Behavioral ecology
Evolutionary ecology
Phylogenetics, systematics and genomics
Biogeography
Population and community ecology
Migration and movement ecology
Breeding and reproductive biology
Physiological ecology
New technology and methodology


Theoretical, applied and interdisciplinary papers are equally welcome. The journal prefers concise, well-written papers focusing on precisely framed questions or hypotheses. Purely observational or descriptive papers have a low chance of acceptance.

Avian Research mainly publishes research articles and reviews. Although the journal publishes other types like correspondences and short notes at times, direct submission of such types of manuscript is not advised.

The rigorous peer-review helps raise the academic level of the journal and has led the journal being indexed in such databases as SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded), Scopus, DOAJ, Zoological Record, and CSCD (Chinese Science Citation Database).

As an open access journal, Avian Research benefits authors from publishing high quality contents on ScienceDirect that will be internationally accessible at no cost, quality peer-review, easy online submission and fast publication upon acceptance.

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Editor-in-Chief
Guangmei Zheng, Beijing Normal University, China 
Executive Editor-in-Chief
Fumin Lei, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China 
Deputy Editors-in-Chief
Per Alström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 
Ping Ding, Zhejiang University, China 
Yong Wang, Alabama A&M University, USA
Editorial Board
Lei Cao, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China
Chi-yeung Choi, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Anthony David Fox, Aarhus University, Denmark 
Eben Goodale, Guangxi University, China
Garth Herring, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, USA
Jin-Won Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Dongming Li, Hebei Normal University, China
Wei Liang, Hainan Normal University, China
Jinsong Liu, Wenzhou University, China
Yang Liu, Sun Yat-sen University, China 
Huw Lloyd, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 
Xin Lu, Wuhan University, China 
Ming Ma, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS, China 
Zhijun Ma, Fudan University, China 
Philip J.K McGowan, University of Newcastle, UK 
Anders Pape Møller, Université Paris-Sud, France 
Federico Morelli, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
Theunis Piersma, University of Groningen, Netherlands 
Yanhua Qu, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China
Scott K. Robinson, University of Florida, USA 
Xingfeng Si, East China Normal University, China
Yali Si, Tsinghua University, China
Yue-Hua Sun, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China 
Piotr Tryjanowski, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
Yanping Wang, Nanjing Normal University, China
Shuping Zhang, Minzu University of China, China
Yanyun Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China
Zhengwang Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China 
Fasheng Zou, South China Institute of Endangered Animals, China