Acknowledgments

Field research by JAR and LWO would have been impossible without help from D. Brimm, R. Cole, C. Collier, C. Elphick, L. Hanaw, C. Holmes, E. Larsen, S. Lengyel, D. Lewis, G. Lott, D. Lutz, L. Neel, L. Powers, J. Pruett, N. Sakke, N. Warnock, S. Warnock, and H. Wilbanks. Long-distance resightings were provided by C. Marn and the volunteers listed in Robinson and Oring (1996). Financial support was provided by B&B Wetlands, the Jay Dow, Sr., Wetlands, the National Audubon Society George Whittell Nevada Environmental Fund, the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, NSF Grant DEB-9196050 to LWO, NSF Dis-sertation Improvement Grant DEB-9422526 to LWO and JAR, a National Science Foundation Graduate fellowship to JAR, a North Dakota NSF EPSCoR subcontract to LWO, USDA Hatch Grants via the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Environmental Institute of Houston.

JMR and LWO thank field assistants D. Lewis, H. Wilbanks and L. McNeil. Assistance and support in Hawaii was provided by C. Terry and M. Ueoka of the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife, the Commander of the Kane‘ohe Marine Corps Air Station, M. Morin of the National Park Service, J. Beall, K. Evans, M. Silbernagle, and K. Viernes of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Access to additional information also was provided by R. Coleman, A. Engilis, and F. Reid. Funding of research in Hawaii was provided by NSF grant DEB-9322733 to JMR and LWO, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Office in Honolulu.

Over the past decade, many colleagues have assisted JPS in conducting field research on breeding stilts in California’s Tulare Basin. JPS especially wishes to thank D. Roster, S. Detwiler, J. Henderson, C. Marn, D. Welsh, R. Stein, and P. Leonard for their substantial efforts in the field and D. Barnum and T. Charmley for their gracious logistic support at Kern National Wildlife Refuge. JPS thanks the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, California Department of Water Resources, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for financial support.

We thank T. A. Sordahl and K. Russell for providing comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Local supplemental data were provided by C. L. Gratto-Trevor (Alberta and Saskatchewan), T. A. Sordahl (Utah), C. Marn (Tulare Basin, CALIFORNIA), R. A. James, Jr. (Southern California, J. M. Cys (Texas), S. Cardiff and P. Dickson (Louisiana), K. Benson (Texas A&M University; unpublished breeding bird atlas data for Texas), W. Knowles (St. Croix), and M. Morin (Hawaiian Islands).