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Acknowledgments
We thank P. C. Osenton for providing food data slips from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service files. M. V. McDonald and C. H. Trost graciously provided unpublished data. The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology supplied information on egg dimensions, and Bob Zink on systematics. We examined bird skins in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and the Charleston Museum. Behavioral photos courtesy of Mark B. Bartosik. This account benefited from reviews by J. Rising and J. Curnutt.
Post, William, W. Post and J. S. Greenlaw. 2009. Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus), 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/127
