About the Author(s)

Oscar W. Johnson studied reproductive histology at Washington State University (Ph.D. 1964). Over the next few years, his research focused on micro-structural features of the avian kidney, with emphasis on adaptation to physiologically stressful environments. Coincident to field work on kidneys of oceanic birds at the Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1970 he became fascinated with plovers and began long-term studies, still in progress, of their ecology and behavior. He retired from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1990 and is currently an Affiliate Professor at Montana State University. Current address: Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717. Email: owjohnson2105@aol.com.

Peter G. Connors began his research career studying nucleic acid structural biophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. 1971). He switched fields, first to seabird pollution ecology and eventually to shorebird behavior and ecology, beginning in 1974. During field studies in arctic Alaska in the late 1970s, he became interested in relationships of the 2 subspecies of Lesser Golden-Plover and pursued this subject with museum and field studies intermittently over the next 15 years. He retired in 2005 from his position as Senior Museum Scientist and Reserve Manager at the University of California Bodega Marine Laboratory. Current address: P.O. Box 1015, Bodega Bay, CA 94923