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Acknowledgments
We sincerely thank the following people for providing comments on this biography and unpublished data: Diane Amirault, Ted Below, Sue Cameron, Francesca Cuthbert, Jack Dingledine, Catherine Haffner, Anne Hecht, Michael Larson, Katherine Mehl, Ted Miller, Vanessa Pompei, Brian Scholtens, Jennifer Stucker, and Ha-Cheol Sung. Sonograms were produced by Kim Derrickson from recordings made by William Gunn (deceased) for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. We extend our gratitude to Richard Kuzminiski for donating the Piping Plover photo; John Anderton and Julie Zickefoose drew the sketches and the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (USNM) provided access to egg sets and study skins.
Unpublished data were collected by SMH from 19811987 with support from the University of North Dakota, Delta Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Station, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and World Wildlife Fund. USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center in Corvallis, OR, provided support during manuscript preparation.
Elliott-Smith, Elise and Susan M. Haig. 2004. Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/002
