P. A. Buckley, Senior Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, is stationed at the University of Rhode Island, where he is also Resident Professor of Ecology. A graduate of Columbia and Cornell universities, he was Chief Scientist of the U.S. National Park Service’s North Atlantic Region for 10 years and has also been a faculty member at Old Dominion, Hofstra, and Rutgers Universities and the University of Massachusetts. A long-term student of colonial waterbirds, coastal ecology, and avian migration and distribution, he is co-author/editor of Avian Genetics: A Population and Ecological Approach (Academic Press, 1987), and is a past president and co-founder of the Waterbird Society. Current address: Box 8, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882. E-mail: pabuckley@uri.edu pabuckley@usgs.gov
Francine G. Buckley is Associate Research Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Rhode Island. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and recipient of its field biology award, since finishing her undergraduate and graduate education at Cornell University, she has also been on the faculties of Old Dominion, Hosftra, and Rutgers Universities and Suffolk County Community College. The longtime editor of The Colonial Waterbird Society Bulletin, she was also a Waterbird Society co-founder and officer. Co-editor of Neotropical Ornithology (Am. Ornithol. Union, 1985), she is an Elective Member of the American Ornithologists’ Union, and a founding member of the West Indian Seabird Working Group. Her research interests have centered on the ecology, behavior, and management of seabirds and other colonially breeding waterbirds, on which she has been publishing since the late 1960s. She is currently involved in a long-term study of Neotropical migrants and their relation to Lyme Disease at a coastal New York stopover site. Current address: Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881. E-mail: fgb@uri.edu
