About the Author(s)

Margaret A. Skeel studied nesting strategies of the Whimbrel for her graduate work, at the same time detailing other aspects of the species’ biology during the breeding season. She received a B.Sc. in zoology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton (1971) and an M.Sc. under Jon C. Barlow from the University of Toronto (1976). Skeel’s interest in arctic birds was sparked by Tom W. Barry of the Canadian Wildlife Service while working in the western Canadian Arctic in 1972. A free-lance wildlife biologist, Skeel has been involved in numerous bird surveys, including in the boreal forest of Ontario and the Rocky Mtns. of Alberta, for various government organizations. In recent years, she has coordinated Piping Plover and grassland bird studies in Saskatchewan. Current address: 36 Emerald Park Road, Regina, SK S4S 4X5, Canada.

Elizabeth P. Mallory studied under William D. Stull at Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. 1975) and under Richard T. Holmes at Dartmouth College (Ph.D. 1981). For her doctoral work, she compared Whimbrel foraging in Churchill, MB, Cape Breton I., NS, Cape Cod, MA, and the Canal Area, Panama. Intrigued by the Whimbrel’s long bill, she studied allometry in Tringinae shorebirds while teaching at Kenyon College, OH (1980–1983). In 1983 she joined the staff at the Manomet Bird Observatory, where she founded the Field Biology Training Program and did research on migrating Semipalmated Plovers. Since 1989 she has been working in Belize on the ecology and conservation of tropical forest birds, including the Scarlet Macaw. Current address: Manomet Observatory, P.O. Box 1770, 81 Stage Point Road, Manomet, MA 02345.