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About the Author(s)
John M. Cooper began his career as an ornithologist collecting eggs for his father at the age of 6. Never doubting his career path, he studied at the University of British Columbia (B.Sc. 1978), then spent 10 years as an ornithology technician at the Royal British Columbia Museum (1981-1990) where he conducted inventory and research studies on birds throughout British Columbia. He studied Least Sandpipers breeding on the Queen Charlotte I. between 1984 and 1988 and completed an M.Sc. on that species at the University of Victoria in 1993. He is a coauthor of The Birds of British Columbia, vols. 1-2, and is currently working on completing the series. Since 1991 he has worked as a wildlife biologist and now operates his own consulting business. Current address: Sirius Environmental Research, 1278 Laurel Road, RR 3, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada V5L 5K8.
About The Reviser
Silke Nebel has worked on shorebird ecology in Europe, Asia, North and Latin America and on Arctic breeding grounds. She did her MSc research at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and graduated with a PhD from Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is currently working as a Research Associate at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her main interests are migration ecology and conservation of shorebirds and wetlands. Email: snebel2@uwo.ca
Nebel, Silke and John M. Cooper. 2008. Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla), 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/115
