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Acknowledgments
For making work fun and helping me learn about Least Sandpipers, I thank Dianne Cooper, Margo Hearne, and Susan Skaalid. For invaluable assistance provided to complete many aspects of this project, I thank Ted Miller. Rob Butler and Cheri Gratto-Trevor provided unpublished data and important insights. Dennis Paulson and Chris Thompson provided significant help on the systematics and appearance sections, respectively. Research on Queen Charlotte I. was supported by the National Science, Engineering, and Research Council (NSERC) grants to Ted Miller, and by Friends of the Royal Museum, and the Royal British Columbia Museum.
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
