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Acknowledgments
We thank the many people who have provided information from their observations on Roseate Terns: R. Dewey, Sean Furniss, Kees Hulsman, Robert Paxton, R. Philibosian, J. Pierce, Carl Safina, Jorge Saliva, David Shealer, and R. van Halewyn. We especially thank Jeremy Hatch, Helen Hays, Adrian del Nevo, David Shealer, and Jeffrey Spendelow for information and critical review of the manuscript, as well as field assistants too numerous to mention.
Gochfeld, Michael, Joanna Burger and Ian C. Nisbet. 1998. Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), 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/370
