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Acknowledgments
We thank Roger Boyd, Ted Eubanks, Doug George, Jeff Gore, Laura Hill, Phil Persons, Sara Schweitzer, and Mark Stern for providing unpublished information on Snowy Plovers for the original account. Catherine Hickey measured museum specimens at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley and California Academy of Sciences, and helped research information on the species’ distribution. We thank Sandra Gaunt and the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at Ohio State University for making sonograms of a Snowy Plover call and Lloyd Kiff and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology for supplying information on eggs from the museum collection. Roger Boyd, Ted Eubanks, Doug George, Jeff Gore, Laura Hill, Phil Persons, and Mark Stern made many helpful comments on the original account. John Cavitt, Jenny Erbes, Doug George, John Himes, Kriss Neuman, Robert Patton, Raya Pruner, Jane Warriner provided valuable unpublished information and/or comments on the revised account.
Page, Gary W., Lynne E. Stenzel, G. W. Page, J. S. Warriner, J. C. Warriner and P. W. Paton. 2009. Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus), 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/154
