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Acknowledgments
Unpublished information was graciously provided by R. Ambrose, A. Bennett, R. Gill, H. Grunberg, S. Hatch, S. Houston, J. Obst, L. Oring, P. Paton, R. Ritchie, R. Scher, J. Sirois, S. Skagen, P. Sinclair, T. Tobish, P. Tomkovich, and D. Ward. For field assistance in Alaska, many thanks to D. Christian, M. Colwell, C. Elphick, R. Gill, B. Keimel, R. Lanctot, C. Lindsay, R. Mathis, S. Matsuoka, L. Pajot, J. Pearce, D. Ruthrauff, T. Van Pelt, and D. Ward. International Shorebird Survey data were provided by B. Harrington of the Manomet Observatory. Egg data and nest records were supplied by L. Kiff and S. Sumida of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. The staff of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics prepared the sonograms. Comments by R. Gill, D. Kroodsma, S. Matsuoka, A. Poole, and K. Russell improved the manuscript. Financial support for TLT to conduct research on the breeding grounds and to prepare the manuscript was provided by the Alaska Biological Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey. WM was supported by the Betty Jane Hollender Research Fund and the Kemper Foundation.
Tibbitts, T. Lee and William Moskoff. 1999. Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes), 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/427
