Acknowledgments
This study was funded through a State Wildlife Grant (SWG T-36, Project
2) administered by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Threatened,
Endangered and Diversity Program, an NSF CAREER award (008933-00002), a
generous donation from an anonymous donor, and a National Geographic
grant (WW-202R-170) to KCR, as well as an NSF LTREB (No. 0649679,
1242584) grant to PPM and TWS, and funding from the Smithsonian
Institute’s James Bond Endowment Fund to PPM. Writing of this paper was
initiated while MGD and ECA were scientists-in-residence in the Mobile
High Altitude Venue for Ecological Analysis, Genetics, and Statistics on
location in Moab, Utah for five days in March 2023. This is contribution
number mHAVEAGAS-002. We gratefully acknowledge the services and kind
staff at the Grand County Public Library in Moab. Field work was
conducted under permits from the USGS, the Jamaican National Environment
and Protection Agency, and Smithsonian National Zoo IACUC approval
14-03. Sample collection in Colombia was undertaken as part of a study
funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada and both sample
collection and export were conducted under permits (resolución 00874)
from the Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA). Sample
collection and export in Trinidad and Tobago were conducted under the
Special Game License (Chapter 67:01 Section 10) and Special Export
License from the Wildlife Section Forestry Division, and we thank Carl
Fitzjames, Richard Smith, Richelle Smith, Shivam Mahadeo, and Laura
Baboolal for sample collection. We thank Keith Hobson, Anne-Marie
Barber, Lorie Collins, Robert Dawson, Lilie DeSousa, Jose Diaz, Emmanuel
Milot, David Okines, and John Woods for sample collection and
preparation and support from the Max Bell Foundation and Environment
Canada. We thank staff of the Institute for Bird Populations and MAPS
and MoSI program cooperators for providing samples or assisting with
sample collection. We thank Jeanie Woltz, Junior Tremblay, Jacques
Ibarzabal, Tim Kita, John Woodcock, Alexis Cerezo, Susan Koenig, Ingrid
Tello-Lopez, Rafael Rueda Hernandez, Fred Schaffner, Stacey Hayden, Lori
Walewski, Chantal Villeneuve, Chase Mendenhall, and David Curiel for
sample collection. We thank Diana Baetscher for providing feedback on a
draft of this manuscript. This work utilized the Alpine high performance
computing resource at the University of Colorado Boulder. Alpine is
jointly funded by the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of
Colorado Anschutz, Colorado State University, and the National Science
Foundation (award 2201538).