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Acknowledgments
This account is dedicated to Frank Pitelka in recognition of his pioneering research on this species. Unpublished data and input were provided by C. Elphick, C. Ely, A. Engilis, R. Fyfe, R. Gill, C. Hui, A. Jaramillo, B. Kessel, P. Martin, B. McCaffery, J. Pearce (who also assisted with Russian translation), D. Sibley, S. Skagen, P. Tomkovich, D. Troy, and S. Warnock. Egg data were supplied by the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. Sonograms were kindly supplied by S. Gaunt (Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics). We thank D. Paulson for providing thoughts and data on molt and C. Cicero for access to the extensive collection of dowitchers at the MVZB, CA. Drafts of this contribution were reviewed and improved by L. Bevier, B. Kessel, D. Kroodsma, E. Miller, A. Poole, R. Gill, S. Howell, F. Pitelka, and K. Russell.
Takekawa, John Y. and Nils Warnock. 2000. Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus), 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/493
