Acknowledgments

The National Geographic Society supported much of the authors’ plover research over the years. Additional funding (OWJ) was from the former Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii; Research Corporation; Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Hawaii Audubon Society; Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu; Minnesota State University Moorhead; and BYU-Hawaii. Other sources (PGC) were the Bureau of Land Management and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as part of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We thank many individuals for assistance in the field, particularly Phillip Bruner, Andrea Bruner, Paul Brusseau, Nancy Brusseau, Ronald Kienholz, Mark Johnson, Lee Johnson, John Maron, and Sarah Griffin. Special recognition goes to Patricia Johnson for her contributions and assistance in all phases of OWJ’s plover studies. Important field observations and other information concerning plovers were provided in Alaska by Robert Gill, Jr., and Brian McCaffery, and in Hawaii by Ronald Walker. Lloyd Kiff furnished egg data from the collection of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. Danny Bystrak sent banding records from the U.S. Bird Banding Laboratory, and Edward Miller shared in-press material concerning vocalizations of plovers. Numerous colleagues provided valuable insights on plovers in other regions of the world. We are especially grateful to Pavel Tomkovich (Russia), Ross James (Ontario), Craig Faanes and Alain Le Dreff (n. South America), Daniel Blanco, Pablo Canevari, Patricia Gonzalez, Blanca Molinuevo, Joaquin Navarro, Colin Sharp, and Roberto Straneck (Argentina), Adrian Stagi and Isabel Loinaz (Uruguay), William Belton (Brazil), and P. C. Bhattacharjee, P. Gole, V. Menon, P. O. Nameer, and V. Santharam (India). We thank Albert Bush, Juan Carvajal, Pedro Cattan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Oscar Lombardero, Margarita Ostrowski, Patricio Torres, P. L. Wong, and David Worley for help in locating records of parasites in golden-plovers. We are indebted to Richard Kosevich and Miguel Muñoz for their generous assistance in translation of Russian and Spanish literature. Special thanks to the librarians at Renne Library, Montana State University, who efficiently and cheerfully secured many, often obscure, publications; and to Sigrid Southworth, Hawaiian Collection, Midkiff Learning Center, Kamehameha Schools, for information concerning the Pacific Golden-Plover in Hawaiian culture.