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Acknowledgments
I thank Marilyn Spalding for providing information on diseases and contaminants, Will Post for unpublished information on food habits from South Carolina, and Jim Rodgers, Louis Bevier, Keith Russell, Kenn Kaufman, and Alan Poole for constructive review. I also thank the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics for help with vocalizations.
Frederick, Peter C. 1997. Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor), 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/306
