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Acknowledgments
I thank the following for supplying unpublished data, reports, theses, compilations, or preprints: C. M. Adams, J. G. T. Anderson. J. M. Arnold, P. H. Becker, B. Blodget, H. Blokpoel, F. Blouin, J. S. Boates, A. Boyne, F. G. and P. A. Buckley, J. Burger, D. Cabot, G. Chapdelaine, J. C. S. Craik, J. M. Cullen, F. J. Cuthbert, D. De Luca, J. DiCostanzo, E. K. Dunn, A. J. del Nevo, K. M. Devlin, S. Emslie, R. Etcheberry, M. Fasola, C. Fiorello, G. A. Fox, J. B. French, M. S. Friar, H. A. Galbraith, M. Gilbertson, M. Gochfeld, J. González-Solís, C. S. Hall, R. A. Harlow, L. H. Harper, C. A. Hart, J. J. Hatch, H. Hays, V. M. Heaney, S. Hecker, D. W. Holt, A. G. Horn, C. S. Houston, O. Hüppop, H. Källander, E. Kalmbach, K. Karwowski, J. Keisman, A. R. Keith, I. M. Kirkham, S. Koch, W. Koonz, S. W. Kress, M. LaBarr, B. Lardizabal, M. Leonard, A. J. Lock, P. Luttrell, M. McNicholl, C. D. T. Minton, D. J. Moore, R. D. Morris, K. M. Olsen, S. Parken, K. Parsons, J. L. Pearson, C. Pekarik, M. Pokras, P. W. Post, X. Ruiz, C. A. Safina, J. Schwerin, J. Sirois, J. A. Spendelow, K. Stromborg, P. Thomas, J. Tims, P. Trull, K. S. Vermeer, H. Wendeln, D. V. Weseloh, R. M. Whittam, D. B. Wingate. I thank C. M. Adams, J. M. Arnold, L. Bevier, J. B. French, M. S. Friar, C. S. Hall, D. Kroodsma, D. J. Moore, and K. Russell for reviewing drafts of sections of this account, and F. J. Cuthbert and J. J. Hatch for review of the entire document. I thank many colleagues, assistants, and students for help in the field. Finally, I thank tens of thousands of Common Terns who allowed me to study and handle them, and who expressed their appreciation by continually pecking me and defecating on me.
Nisbet, Ian C. 2002. Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), 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/618