Recent and soon-to-appear professional publications based wholly or in part on University of Alaska Museum (UAM) bird specimens and/or their associated data: 

2018 
Kearns, A. M., M. Restani, I. Szabo, A. Schroder-Nielsen, J. A. Kim, H. M. Richardson, J. M. Marzluff, R. C. Fleischer, A. Johnsen, and K. E. Omland. 2018. Genomic evidence of speciation reversal in ravens. Nature Communications 9:906. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03294-w

Miller, C. R., C. E. Latimer, and B. Zuckerberg. 2018. Bill size variation in Northern Cardinals associated with anthropogenic drivers across North America. Ecology and Evolution 2018:1-11. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4038

2017
FitzGerald, A. M., D. M. Whitaker, J. Ralston, J. J. Kirchman, and I. G. Warkentin. 2017. Taxonomy and distribution of the imperiled Newfoundland Gray-cheeked Thrush, Catharus minimus minimus. Avian Conservation and Ecology 12:10.https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-00976-120110.

Harris, R.B., P. Alstršm, A. …deen, A. D. LeachŽ. 2017. Discordance between genomic divergence and phenotypic variation in a rapidly evolving avian genus (Motacilla). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.020

Janssen, K., N. I. Mundy. 2017. The genetic basis and enigmatic origin of melanic polymorphism in Pomarine Skuas (Stercorarius pomarinus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20171735.

Johnsen, A., A. M. Kearns, K. E. Omland, and J. A. Anmarkrud. 2017. Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the common raven Corvus corax (Aves: Corvidae) confirms mitogenome-wide deep lineages and a paraphyletic relationship with the Chihuahuan Raven C. cryptoleucus. PLoS One 12(10):e0187316. 

Nelson, J. T., R. E. Wilson, K. G. McCraken, G. S. Summing, L. Joseph, P-T Guay, and J. L. Peters. 2017. Divergence and gene flow in the globally distributed blue-winged ducks. J. Avian Biology 48:640-649.

Perktas, U., A. T. Peterson, and D. Dyer. 2017. Integrating morphology, phylogeography, and ecological niche modeling to explore population differentiation in North African Common Chaffinches. Journal of Ornithology 158:1-13.

Pruett, C. L., A. Ricono, C. Spern, and K. Winker. 2017. Island life and isolation: the population genetics of Pacific Wrens on the North Pacific Rim. Condor 119:131-142.

Szabo, I., K. Walters, J. Rourke, and D. E. Irwin. 2017. First record of House Swift (Apus nipalensis) in the Americas. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129:411-416.

Toews, D. P. L. 2017. Habitat suitability and the constraints of migration in New World warblers. Journal of Avian Biology 48:1614-1623.

Winker, K., and J. J. Withrow. 2017. Collectively, we need to accelerate Arctic specimen sampling. Arctic Science 3:515-524.

2016
Campbell, K. K., T. M. Braile, and K. Winker 2016. Integration of genetic and phenotypic data in 48 lineages of Philippine birds shows heterogeneous divergence processes and numerous cryptic species. PLoS ONE 11: e0159325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159325

Escalante, G. C., A. D. Sweet, K. G. McCracken, D. R. Gustafsson, R. E. Wilson, and K. P. Johnson. 2016. Patterns of cyrpctic host specificity in duck lice based on molecular data. Medical and Veterinary Entomology doi:Ê10.1111/mve.12157.

Kopuchian, C., L. Campagna, A. S. Di Giacomo, R. E. Wilson, M. Bulgarella, P. Petracci, J. M. Barnett, R. Matus, O. Blank, and K. G. McCracken. 2016. Demographic history inferred from genome-wide data reveals two lineages of sheldgeese endemic to a glacial refugium in the southern Atlantic. Journal of Biogeography 43:1979-1989. 10.1111/jbi.12767

Lavretsky, P., J. L. Peters, V. Bahn, I. Kulikova, Y. N. Zhuravlev, R. Wilson, C. Barger, K. Winker, K. Gurney, B. Clark, A. Breault, S. Slattery, and K. G. McCracken. 2016. Becoming pure: identifying generational classes of admixed individuals within lesser an greater scaup populations. Molecular Ecology 25:661-674.

Nelson, J. T., R. E. Wilson, K. G. McCraken, G. S. Cumming, L. Joseph, P-J Guay, and J. L. Peters. 2016. Divergence and gene flow in the globally distributed blue-winged ducks. Journal of Avian Biology doi: 10.1111/jav.00998.

Sonsthagen, S.A., R. E. Wilson, R. Terry Chesser, J-M. Pons, P-A. Crochet, A. Driskell, C. Dove. 2016. Recurrent hybridization and recent origin obscure phylogenetic relationships within the Ôwhite-headedÕ gull (Larus sp.) complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103:41-54. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.06.008

Tuttle, E. M., A. O. Bergland, M. L. Korody, M. S. Brewer, D. J. Newhouse, P. Minx, M. Stager, A. Betuel, Z. A. Chevron, W. C. Warren, R. A. Gonser, and C. N. Balakrishnan. 2016. Divergence and functional degradation of a sex chromosome-like supergene. Current Biology 26:344-350.

West, C. F., S. M. Dunning, S. Ebbert, C. A. Hofman, P. G. Saltonstall, and J. Withrow. 2016. Archaeology and invasive species management: the Chirikof Island project. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2016.1172383.

Winker, K. 2016. An examination of species limits in the Aulacorhynchus ÒprasinusÓ toucanet complex (Aves: Ramphastidae). PeerJ 4: e2381 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2381.

Winker, K. Q. C. Kessel, and D. D. Gibson. 2016. In Memoriam: Brina Cattell Kessel, 1925-2016. Auk 133:820-821.

Withrow, J. J., D. D. Gibson, Y. Gerasimov, N. Gerasimov, A. Shestopalov, and K. Winker. 2016. Occurrence and Taxonomy of Arctic Warblers (Phylloscopus borealis) sensu lato in North America. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128:268-277.

Zhang, Z., X. Wang, Y. Huang, U. Olsson, J. Martinez, P. Alstrom, and F. Lei. 2016. Unexpected divergence and lack of divergence revealed in continental Asian Cyornis flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94:232-241. [uses several GenBank sequences archived here. Do we count these?]

2015
Benson, A.-M., and K. Winker. 2015. High-latitude passerine migrants overlap energetically demanding events in autumn. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 127:601-614.

Edwards, A. E., S. M. Fitzgerald, J. K. Parrish, J. L. Klavitter, M. D. Romano. 2015. Foraging Strategies of Laysan Albatross Inferred from Stable Isotopes: Implications for Association with Fisheries. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0133471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133471

Gibson, D. D. and J. J. Withrow. 2015. Second inventory of the species and subspecies of Alaska birds. Western Birds 46: 94-185.

Lavinia, P. D., P. Escalante, N. C. Garcia, A. S. Barreira, N. Trujillo-Arias, P. L. Tubaro, K. Naoki, C. Y. Miyaki, F. R. Santos, and D. A. Lijtmaer. 2015. Continental-scale analysis reveals deep diversification within the polytypic Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica, Cardinalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89:182-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.018.

Lee, D.-H., M. K. Torchetti, K. Winker, H. Ip, Song, C.-S., and D. E. Swayne. 2015. Intercontinental spread of Asian-origin H5N8 to North America through Beringia by migratory birds. Journal of Virology 89:6521-6524.

Natarajan, C., J. Project-Garcia, H. Moriyama, R. E. Weber, V. Munoz-Fuentes, A. J. Green, C. Kopuchian, P. L. Tubaro, L. Alza, M. Bulgarella, M. M. Smith, R. E. Wilson, A. Fago, K. G. McCraken, and J. F. Storz. 2015. Convergent evolution of hemoglobin function in high-altitude Andean waterfowl invovlves limited parallelism at the molecular sequence level. PLOS Genetics doi:10.1337/journal.pgen.1005681

Pruett, C. L., L. Wan, T. Li, C. Spern, S. L. Lance, T. C. Glenn, B. Faircloth, and K. Winker. 2015. Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for common raven (Corvus corax) and cross species amplification in other Corvidae. BMC Research Notes 8:655.

Ringgenberg, B., and K. Winker. 2015. Indications that the Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammea) is double brooded in Alaska. Western Birds 46:291-298.

Walker, W. A., S. M. Fitzgerald, and P. W. Collins. 2015. Stomach contents of seven Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus in the eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea. Marine Ornithology 43:169-172.

Wallace, S. J., S. G. Wolf, R. W. Bradley, A. L. Harvey, and V. L. Friesen. 2015. The influence of biogeographical barriers on the population genetic structure and gene flow in a coastal seabird. Journal of Biogeography 42:390-400.

Winker, K., K. K. Campbell, C. Wong, J. F. Fricilone, and A. B. Johnson 2015. Phylochronology of an avian migrant during autumn stopover appears to show a time signal in genetic diversity. Loon 87:47-52.

Withrow, J. J. 2015. Notes on the Birds of Chirikof Island. Western Birds 46:28-48.


2014
Aguilar, C., LF. De Le—n, J.R Loaiza, W.O. McMillan,ÊM.J. Miller. 2014. Extreme sequence divergence between mitochondrial genomes of two subspecies of White-breasted Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucostictaÊCabanis, 1847) from western and central Panam‡. Mitochondrial DNA doi: 10.3109/19401736.2014.926503.

AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. 2014. Fifty-fifth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 131(4):CSi-CSxv.

Bryson, R. W., J. Chaves, B. T. Smith, M. J. Miller, K. Winker, J. L. Perez-Eman, and J. Klicka. 2014. Diversification across the New World within the ÔblueÕ cardinalids (Aves: Cardinalidae). Journal of Biogeography 41:587-599.

Freshwater, C., C. K. Ghalambor, and P. R. Martin. 2014. Repeated patterns of trait divergence between closely related dominant and subordinate bird species. Ecology 95:2334-2345.

Gibson, D. D., L. H. DeCicco, R. E. Gill, S. C. Heinl, A. J. Lang, T. G. Tobish, Jr., and J. J. Withrow. 2014. Checklist of Alaska birds, 20th edition.

Howell, S. N. G., I. Lewington, and W. Russell. 2014. Rare birds of North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Loaiza, J. R., C. Aguilar, LF. De Leon, W.O. McMillan,ÊM.J. Miller. 2014. Mitochondrial genome organization of the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher,ÊMionectes oleagineus.ÊMitochondrial DNA doi: 10.3109/19401736.2014.919491.Ê

Mason, N. A., P. O. Title, C. Cicero, K. J. Burns, and R. C. K. Bowie. 2014. Genetic variation among western populations of the Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) indicates recent colonization of the Channel Islands off southern California, mainland-bound dispersal, and postglacial range shifts. Auk 131:162-174.

Miller, M. J. 2014. A distinctive avian assemblage in western DariŽn, Panam‡ is uncovered through a disease surveillance program.ÊRevista de Biolog’a Tropical 62: 711 - 717.Ê

Peters, J. L., S. A. Sonsthagen, P. Lavretshy, M. Rezsutek, W. P. Johnson, and K. G. McCraken. 2014a. Interspecific hybridization contributes to high genetic diversity and apparent effective population size in an endemic population of mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula maculosa). Conservation Genetics 15:509Ð520.

Peters, J. L., K. Winker, K. C. Millam, P. Lavretsky, I. Kulikova, R. E. Wilson, Y. N. Zhuravlev, and K. G. McCracken. 2014b. Mito-nuclear discord in six congeneric lineages of Holarctic ducks (genusÊAnas). Molecular Ecology 23:2961-2974.

Pranty, B., J. L. Dunn, K. L. Garrett, D. D. Gibson, M. J. Iliff, M. W. Lockwood, R. Pittawy, and D. A. Sibley. 2014. 25th Report of the ABA Checklist Committee, 2014. Birding 46:26-36.

Rocha, L. et al. (122 more authors) 2014. Specimen collection: An essential tool. Science 344:814-815.

Slager, D. L., C. J. Battey, R. W. Bryson, G. Voelker, and J. Klicka. 2014. A multilocus phylogeny of a major New World avian radiation: the Vireonidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 80:95-104.

Withrow, J. J. and K. Winker. 2014. Genetics of a high-latitude cryptic speciation event: American and Pacific golden-plovers. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126:429-442.

Withrow, J. J., S. G. Sealy, and K. Winker. 2014. Genetics of divergence in the Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus). The Auk 131:73-85.


2013
AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. 2013. Fifty-fourth supplement to the American OrnithologistsÕ Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 130:558-571.

Braile, T. M., and K. Winker. 2013. New distributional records of Philippine birds from Bohol, Mactan, Olango, Busuanga and Luzon islands. Forktail 29:140-141.

Bryson, R. W. Jr., J. Chaves, B. T. Smith, M. J. Miller, K. Winker, J. L. PŽrez-Em‡n, and J. Klicka. 2013. Diversification across the New World within the ÒblueÓ cardinalids (Aves: Cardinalidae). Journal of Biogeography 41:587-599. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12218

Dunn, J. L., D. D. Gibson, M. J. Iliff, G. R. Rosenberg, and K. J. Zimmer. 2013. Alaska records of the Asian White-winged Scoter. Western Birds 43:220-228. 

Gibson, D. D., L. H. DeCicco, R. E. Gill, S. C. Heinl, A. J. Lang, T. G. Tobish, Jr., and J. J. Withrow. 2013. Third report of the Alaska Checklist Committee, 2008-2012. Western Birds 44:183-195.

Gibson, D. D. 2012. On two fronts: Occurrence of the House Sparrow in Alaska. Western Birds 43:248-254

Gibson, D. D., L. H. DeCicco, R. E. Gill, S. C. Heinl, A. J. Lang, T. G. Tobish, Jr., and J. J. Withrow. 2013. Checklist of Alaska birds, 19th edition.

Haynes, T. B., M. A. Campbell, J. L. Neilson, and J. A. Lopez. 2013. Molecular identification of seabird remains found in humpback whale feces. Marine Ornithology 41:161-166.

Hoglund, J., B. Wang, T. Axelsson, and M. Quintela. 2013. Phylogeography of willow grouse (Lagopus lagopus) in the Arctic: taxonomic discordance as inferred from molecular data. Biol. Journal of the Linnean Society 110:77-90.

Janssen, K., and N. I. Mundy. 2013. Molecular population genetics of the melanic plumage polymorphism in Arctic skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus): evidence for divergent selection on plumage colour. Molecular Ecology 22:4634-4643.

Kerr, K. C. R. and C. J. Dove. 2013. Delimiting shades of gray: phylogeography of the Northern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis. Ecology and Evolution doi:10.1002/ece3.597

Mercer, D. M., S. M. Haig, and D. D. Roby. 2013. Phylogeography and population genetic structure of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus). Conserv. Genetics. doi: 10.1007/s10592-013-0477-8.

McCracken, K. G., R. E. Wilson, J. L. Peters, K. Winker, and A. R. Martin. 2013. Late Pleistocene colonization of South Georgia by yellow-billed pintails pre-dates the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Biogeography 40:000-000 (In press). doi:10.1111/jbi.12162

Pranty, B., J. L. Dunn, K. L. Garrett, D. D. Gibson, M. J. Iliff, M. W. Lockwood, R. Pittaway, and D. A. Sibley. 2013. 24th report of the ABA Checklist Committee, 2013. Birding 45(6):30Ð37, 75Ð79.

Pruett, C. L., C. M. Topp, J. M. Maley,ÊK. G. McCracken, S. Rohwer, S. Birks, S. G. Sealy, and K. Winker.Ê2013. Evidence from the genetics of landbirds for a forested glacial refugium in the Haida Gwaii area.ÊCondor 115:725-737.

Pruett, C. L., C. Whelan, A. Ricono, S. L. Lance, T. Glenn, B. Faircloth, and K. Winker. 2013. Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for two species of Beringian birds, rock sandpipers (Calidris ptilocnemis) and Pacific wren (Troglodytes hyemalis). Molecular Ecology Resources 6:175-177.Ê

Ralston, J. and J. J. Kirchman. 2013. Predicted range shifts in North American boreal forest birds and the effect of climate change on genetic diversity in blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata). Conservation Genetics 14:543-555.

Shaw, D. W., P. Escalante, J. H. Rappole, M. A. Ramos, R. J. Oehlenschlager, D. W. Warner, and K. Winker. 2013. Decadal changes and delayed avian species losses due to deforestation in the northern Neotropics. PeerJ 1:e179 doi:10.7717/peerj.179.

Sonsthagen, S. A., S. L. Talbot,ÊR. E. Wilson, M. Petersen, J. C. Williams, G. V. Byrd, andÊK. G. McCracken. 2013. Genetic structure of the Common Eider in the western Aleutian Islands prior to fox eradication. Condor 115:28-39.

Topp, C. M., C. L. Pruett, K. G. McCracken, and K. Winker. 2013. How thrushes conquered North America: A comparative phylogeography approach. PeerJ 1:e206. doi:10.7717/peerj.206

Wilson, R. E.,ÊJ. L. Peters, andÊK. G. McCracken. 2013. Genetic and phenotypic divergence between low- and high-altitude populations of two recently diverged Cinnamon Teal subspecies. Evolution 67:170-184.

Winker, K., K. G. McCracken, D. D. Gibson, and J. L. Peters. 2013. Heteropatric speciation in a duck,ÊAnas crecca. Molecular Ecology 22:5922-5935. doi: 10.1111/mec.12525.

Winker , K. and J. J. Withrow. 2013. Small collections make a big impact. Nature. 493:480.


2012
AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. 2012. Fifty-third supplement to the American OrnithologistsÕ UnionÊCheck-list of North American Birds. Auk 129:573-588.

Bulgarella, M., J. L. Peters, C. Kopuchian, T. Valqui, R. E. Wilson, and K. G. McCracken. 2012. Multilocus coalescent analysis of hemoglobin differentiation between low- and high altitude populations of crested ducks (Lophonetta specularioides). Molecular Ecology 21:350-368.

Crawford, N. G., B. C. Faircloth, J. E. McCormack, R. T. Brumfield, K. Winker, and T. C. Glenn. 2012. More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs. Biology Letters 8: (published online; doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0331).

Gibson, D. D., L. H. DeCicco, R. E. Gill S. C. Heinl, A. J. Lang, T. G. Tobish, Jr., and J. J. Withrow. 2012. Checklist of Alaska birds, 18th edition.

Peters, J. D., T. Roberts, K. Winker, and K. G. McCracken. 2012. A genomic transect of non-coding DNA reveals strong deviations from selective neutrality in holarctic gadwalls. PLoS ONE 7:e31972. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031972

Peters, J., K. McCracken, C. Pruett, S. Rohwer, S. Drovetski, Y. Zhuravlev, I. Kulikova, D. D. Gibson, and K. Winker. 2012. A parapatric propensity for breeding in teal (Anas crecca, sensu lato) precludes the completion of speciation. Molecular Ecology 21:4563-4577. 

Peters, J. L., K. A. Bolender, and J. M. Pearce. 2012. Behavioural vs. molecular sources of conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA: the role of male-biased dispersal in a Holarctic sea duck. Molecular Ecology 21:3562-3575.\

Ralston, J. and J. J. Kirchman. 2012. Continent-scale genetic structure in a boreal forest migrant, the Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata). Auk 129:467-478.

Sealy, S. G. and H. R. Carter. 2012. Rare inter-ocean vagrancy in Creasted Auklet and Parakeet Auklet. Waterbirds 35:64-73.

Srivastava, A., K. Winker, T. I. Shaw, K. L. Jones, and T. C. Glenn. 2012. Transcriptome analysis of a North American songbird, Melospiza melodia. DNA Research 19:325-333.

Wilson, R. E., M. D. Eaton, and K. G. McCracken. 2012. Plumage and body size differences in Blue-winged Teal and Cinnamon Teal. Avian Biology Research 5:107-116.

Wilson, R. E., J. L. Peters, and K. G. McCracken. 2012. Genetic and phenotypic divergence between low- and high-altitude populations of two recently diverged Cinnamon Teal subspecies. Evolution 67:170-184. doi:Ê10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01740.x

Withrow, J. J., and Schwitters, M. T. 2012. First North American record of the Common 
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) confirmed by molecular analysis. West. Birds 43:259-265.

Winker, K. 2012. The wretched riddle of reduced rectrices in wrens. Western Birds 43:255-258.


2011
Alstrom, P., T. Saitoh, D. Williams, I. Nishiumi, Y. Shigeta, K. Ueda, M. Irestedt, M. Bjorklund, and U. Olsson. 2001. The Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis Ð three anciently separated cryptic species revealed. Ibis 153:395-410.

AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. 2011. Fifty-second supplement to the American OrnithologistsÕ Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 128:600-613.

Brit, T. P., D. Mackinnon, J. F. Piatt, and V. L. Friesen. 2011. Genetic differentiation of the KittlitzÕs Murrelet Brachyramphus brevirostris in the Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska. Marine Ornithology 39:45-51.

Conklin, J. R., P. F. Battley, M. A. Potter, and D. R. Ruthrauff. 2011. Geographic variation in morphology of Alaska-breeding Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) is not maintained on their nonbreeding grounds in New Zealand. Auk 128:363-373.

Gibson, D. D., S. C. Heinl, A. J. Lang, and T. G. Tobish, Jr., J. J. Withrow 2011. Checklist of Alaska birds, 17th edition.

Humphries, E. M., and K. Winker. 2011. Discord reigns among nuclear, mitochondrial, and phenotypic estimates of divergence in nine lineages of trans-Beringian birds. Molecular Ecology 20:573-583.

Klicka, J., G. M. Spellman, K. Winker, V. Chua, and B. T. Smith. 2011. A phylogeographic and population genetic analysis of a widespread, sedentary North American bird: The Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus). Auk 128:346-362.

McCracken, K. G., and R. E. Wilson. Gene flow and hybridization between numerically imbalanced populations of two duck species in the Falkland Islands. PLoS ONE 6:e23173.

Miller, M. J., J.T. Weir, G.R. Angehr, P. Guitton M., E. Bermingham. An ornithological survey of Pi–as Bay, a site on the Pacific coast of DariŽn Province, Panama. Bolet’n of the Sociedad Antioque–a de Ornitologia. 20: 29-38.

Miller, M. J., M. J. Lelevier, E. Bermingham, J. T. Klicka, P. E. Escalante, and K. Winker. 2011. Phylogeography of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl). Condor 113:806-816

Shaw, D., and K. Winker. 2011. Spring stopover and refueling in migrant passerines in the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123:575-587.

Solovyeva, D. V., and J. M. Pearce. Comparative mitochondrial genetics of North American and Eurasian mergansers with an emphasis on the endangered Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus). Conservation Genetics 12:839-844.

Sonsthagen, S. A., S. L. Talbot, K. T. Scribner, and K. G. McCracken. 2011. Multilocus phylogeography and population structure of Common Eiders breeding in North America and Scandinavia. Journal of Biogeography 38:1368-1380.

Weiser, E. L. and A. N. Powell. 2011. Evaluating gull diets: a comparison of conventional methods and stable isotope analysis. Jour. Field Ornithology 82:279-310.

Weiser, E. L. and A. N. Powell. 2011. Reduction of garbage in the diet of nonbreeding Glaucous Gulls corresponding to a change in waste management. Arctic 64:220-226.

Wilson, R. E., M. D. Eaton, S. A. Sonsthagen, J. L. Peters, K. P. Johnson, B. Simarra, and K. G. McCracken. 2011. Speciation, subspecies divergence, and paraphyly in Cinnamon Teal and Blue-winged Teal. Condor 113:747Ð761.

Withrow, J. J. and Sonneborn, D. W. 2011. Important recent bird records from Attu Island, Alaska. Western Birds 42:115-119.

2010
Bull, R. D., A. McCracken, A. J. Gaston, T. P. Birt, and V. L. Friesen. 2010. Evidence for recent population differentiation in Haida Gwaii Orange-crowned Warblers. Auk 127:23-34.

Bulgarella, M., J. Peters, M. Sorenson, R. Wilson, and K. McCracken. Phylogenetic relationships of Amazonetta, Speculanas, Lophonetta, and Tachyeres: Four morphologically divergent duck genera endemic to South America. Journal of Avian Biology 41:186-199.

Chaves, J. C., A.M. Cuervo, M.J. Miller, C.A. Cadena. Revising species limits in a trans-Andean group of Myrmeciza antbirds reveals a cryptic species within M. laemosticta (Thamnophilidae). Condor 112: 718 Ð 730.

Gibson, D. D., and R. C. Banks. 2010. Revised type locality of the Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea (Aves: Alcidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 123:193-195.

Gibson, D. D., S. C. Heinl, A. J. Lang, and T. G. Tobish, Jr. 2010. Checklist of Alaska birds, 16th edition.

Guay, P. J., R. T. Chesser, R. A. Mulder, A. D. Afton, D. C. Paton, and K. G. McCracken. East-west genetic differentiation in Musk Ducks (Biziura lobata) of Australia suggests late Pleistocene divergence at the Nullarbor Plain. Conservation Genetics 11:2105-2120.

Humphries, E. and K. Winker. 2010. Working through polytomies: Auklets revisited. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:88-96.

Johnson, A. B., and K. Winker. 2010. Short-term hurricane impacts on a Neotropical community of marked birds and implications for early-stage community resilience. PloS ONE 5:e15109.

Lohman, D. J., K. K. Ingram, D. M. Prawiradilaga, K. Winker, F. H. Sheldon, R. G. Moyle, P. K. L. Ng, P. S. Ong, L. K. Wang, T. M. Braile, D. Astuti, and R. Meier. 2010. Cryptic diversity in ÒwidespreadÓ southeast Asian bird species suggests that Philippine avian endemism is gravely underestimated. Biological Conservation 143:1885-1890.

Maley, J. M., and K. Winker. 2010. Diversification at high latitudes: Speciation of buntings in the genus Plectrophenax inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Molecular Ecology 19:785-797.

McCracken, K. G., C. P. Barger, and M. D. Sorenson. 2010. Phylogenetic and structural analysis of the HbA (alpha-A/beta-A) and HbD (alpha-D/beta-A) hemoglobin genes in two high-altitude waterfowl from the Himalayas and the Andes: Bar- headed Goose (Anser indicus) and Andean Goose (Chloephaga melanoptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56:649-658.

Miller, M. J., E. Bermingham, J. Klicka, P. Escalante, and K. Winker . 2010. Neotropical birds show a humped distribution of genetic diversity along a latitudinal transect. Ecology Letters 13:576-586.

Pruett, C. L., T. N. Turner, C. M. Topp, S. Zagrebelny, and K. Winker. 2010. Divergence in an archipelago and its conservation consequences in rock ptarmigan. Conservation Genetics 11:241-248. 

Pruett, C. L., and K. Winker. 2010. Alaska Song Sparrows demonstrate that genetic marker and method of analysis matter in subspecies assessments. Ornithological Monographs 67:162-171.

Saitoh, T., P. Alstršm, I. Nishiumi, Y. Shigeta, D. Williams, U. Olsson, and K. Ueda. 2010. Old divergences in a boreal bird supports long-term survival through the ice ages. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:35.

Sonsthagen, S. A., S. L. Talbot, R. B. Lanctot, K. Scribner, and K. G. McCracken. 2010. Hierarchical spatial genetic structure of Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) breeding along a migratory corridor. Auk 126:744-754.

Weiser, E. L. and A. N. Powell. 2010. Does garbage in the diet improve reproductive output of Glaucous Gulls? Condor 112:530-538.

Winker, K. 2010. On the origin of species through heteropatric differentiation: A review and a model of speciation in migratory animals. Ornithological Monographs 69:1- 30.

Winker, K. 2010. Subspecies represent geographically partitioned variation, a goldmine of evolutionary biology, and a challenge for conservation. Ornithological Monographs 67:6-23.

Winker, K., and D. D. Gibson. 2010. The Asia-to-America influx of avian influenza wild bird vectors is large. Avian Diseases 54:477-482.

Wilson, R. E., M. Eaton, T. H. Valqui, and K. G. McCracken. 2010. Ecogeographic variation in Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) along elevational and latitudinal gradients. Ornithological Monographs 67:141-161.

2009
AOU Committee on Bird Collections. 2009. Basic standards for bird collections. Auk 126:941-942.

Clark, W. S. 2009. Extreme variation in the tails of adult HarlanÕs Hawks. Birding January 2009: 30-36.

DeCicco, L., S. Heinl, and D. Sonneborn. 2009. First North American records of the Rufous-tailed Robin (Luscinia sibilans). Western Birds 40:237-241.

Drovetski, S. V., R. M. Zink , N. A. Mode. 2009. Patchy distributions belie morphological and genetic homogeneity in rosy-finches. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50:437Ð445.

Gibson, D. D., S. C. Heinl, and T. G. Tobish, Jr. 2009. Checklist of Alaska birds, 15th ed. University of Alaska Museum.

Heinl, S. C. and A. W. Piston. 2009. Birds of the Ketchikan Area, Southeast Alaska 40:54-144.

McCracken, K. G., C. P. Barger, M. Bulgarella, K. P. Johnson, S. A. Sonsthagen, J. Trucco, T. H. Valqui, R. Wilson, K. Winker, and M. D. Sorenson. 2009. Parallel evolution in the major haemoglobin genes of eight species of Andean waterfowl. Molecular Ecology 18:3992-4005. 

McCracken, K. G., C. P. Barger, M. Bulgarella, K. P. Johnson, M. K. Kuhner, A. V. Moore, J. L. Peters., J. Trucco, T. H. Valqui, K. Winker, and R. E. Wilson. 2009. Signatures of high-altitude adaptation in the major hemoglobin of five species of Andean dabbling ducks. American Naturalist 174:631-650.

McCracken, K. G., M. Bulgarella, K. P. Johnson, M. K. Kuhner, J. Trucco, T. H. Valqui, R. E. Wilson, and J. L. Peters. 2009. Gene flow in the face of countervailing selection: Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in the beta-A hemoglobin subunit of Yellow-Billed pintails.ÊMolecular Biology and Evolution 26:815-827.

Pearce, J. M., K. G. McCracken, T. K. Christensen, and Y. N. Zhuravlev. 2009. Migratory patterns and population structure among breeding and wintering Red- breasted (Mergus serrator) and Common Mergansers (M. merganser). The Auk 126:784-798.

Pearce, J. M., D. Zwiefelhofer, N. Maryanski. 2009. Mechanisms of population heterogeneity among molting common mergansers on Kodiak Island, Alaska: implications for genetic assessments of migratory connectivity. Condor 111:283Ð 293.

Sheldon, F. H., D. J. Lohman, H. C. Lim, F. Zou, S. M. Goodman, D. M. Prawiradilaga, K. Winker, T. M. Braile, and R. G. Moyle. 2009. Phylogeography of the magpie- robin species complex (Aves: Turdidae: Copsychus) reveals a Philippine species and novel dispersal patterns in the Indian Ocean and S. E. Asia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Journal of Biogeography 36:1070-1083.

Stoeckle, M. and K. Winker. 2009. A global snapshot of avian tissue collections: State of the enterprise. Auk 126:684-687.

Weir, J. T. 2009. Implications of genetic differentiation in Neotropical montane forest birds. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 96: 410-433.

Wilson, A., P. Arcese, C. L. Pruett, K. Winker, M. A. Patten, and Y. Chan. 2009. The contribution of island populations to in situ genetic conservation. Conservation Genetics 10:419-430.

2008
Braile, T. B., K. Campbell, and K. Winker. 2008. Body masses of some Philippine birds. Occasional Papers of the Eurasian Pacific Wildlife Conservation Foundation No. 4:1-7.

Enz, J. J. and A. G. Canaris. 2008. Metazoan parasites of Lesser Yellowlegs, Tringa flavipes (Charadriiformes) from southwestern United States and Alaska with a checklist of parasites reported from this host. Journal of Parasitology 94:548- 551.

Johnson, A. B., and K. Winker. 2008. Autumn stopover near the Gulf of Honduras by Nearctic-Neotropic migrants. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120:277-285.

Kinsella, J. M., A. S. Didyk, and A. G. Canaris. 2008. Helminth parasites of dowitchers, Limnodromus griseus from Alaska, and Limnodromus scolopaceus from Montana, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 75:329-332.

Gauy, P., and A. N. Iwaniuk. 2008. Captive breeding reduces brain volume in waterfowl (Anseriformes). Condor 110:276-284.

Miller, M. J., E. Bermingham, J. Klicka, P. Escalante, F. S. Raposo do Amaral, J. T. Weir, K. Winker. 2008. Out of Amazonia again and again: episodic crossing of the Andes promotes diversification in a lowland forest flycatcher. Proceedings B: Biological Sciences 275:1133-1142. 

Peters, J., Y. Zhuravlev, I. Fefelov, E. Humphries, K. Omland. 2008. Multilocus phylogeography of a holarctic duck: colonization of North America from Eurasia by Gadwall (Anas strepera). Evolution 62:1469-1483.

Pruett, C. L., P. Arcese, Y. Chan, A. Wilson, M. A. Patten, L. F. Keller, and K. Winker. 2008. The effects of contemporary processes in maintaining the genetic structure of western Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Heredity 100:67-74.

Pruett, C. L., P. Arcese, Y. L. Chan, A. G. Wilson, M. A. Patten, L. F. Keller, and K. Winker. 2008. Concordant and discordant signals between genetic data and described subspecies of Pacific coast Song Sparrows. Condor 110:359-364.

Pruett, C. L., and K. Winker. 2008. Evidence for cryptic northern refugia in both high- and temperate- latitude species in Beringia. Climatic Change 86:23-27.

Rasmussen, J. L., G. S. Spencer and R. J. Cannings. 2008. Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Rocque, D. A., M. Ben-David, R. P. Barry, and K. Winker. 2009. Wheatear molt and assignment tests: ongoing lessons in using stable isotopes to infer origins. Journal of Ornithology 150:931-934.

Saitoh, T., Y. Shigeta, and K. Ueda. 2008. Morphological differences among populations of the Arctic Warbler with some intraspecific taxonomic notes. Ornithological Science 7:135-142.

Topp, C. and Winker, K. 2008. Genetic patterns of differentiation among five landbird species from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Auk 125:461- 472.
Wilson, R. E., and K. G. McCracken. 2008. Specimen shrinkage in Cinnamon Teal. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120:390-392.

Wilson, R. E., M. Eaton, and K. G. McCracken. 2008. Color divergence among Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) subspecies from North America and South America. Ornitologia Neotropical 19:307-314.

Winker, K. 2008. What I do: Notes from the frontiers of academic curating in biology. Curator 51:393-406.

2007
AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. 2007. Forty- eighth supplement to the American OrnithologistsÕ Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 124:1109-1115.

Brennan, P. L. R., R. O. Prum, K. G. McCracken, M. D. Sorenson, R. E. Wilson, and T. R. Birkhead. 2007. Coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowl. PLoS ONE 2:e419.

Brumfield, R. T., J. G. Tello, Z. A. Cheviron, M. D. Carling, and N. Crochet. 2007. Phylogenetic conservatism and antiquity of a tropical specialization: army-ant-following in the typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45:1-13.

Bulgarella, M., R. E. Wilson, C. Kopuchian, T. H. Valqui, and K. G. McCracken. 2007. Elevational variation in body size of Crested Ducks (Lophonetta specularioides) from the central High Andes, Mendoza, and Patagonia. Ornitolog’a Neotropical 18: 587Ð602.

Canaris, A. G. and J. M. Kinsella. 2007. Helminth communities of three sympatric species of shorebirds (Charadrii) from four summer season at Bristol Bay, Alaska. Journal of Parasitology 93:485-490.

Fain, M. G., and P. Houde. 2007. Multilocus perspectives on the monophyly and phylogeny of the order Charadriiformes (Aves). BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:35. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-35.

Gibson, D. D., and G. V. Byrd. 2007. Birds of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Series in Onithology 1. Nuttall Ornithological Club and American Ornithologists' Union.
Gibson, D. D., and R. C. Banks. 2007. The correct type locality of Spizella breweri. Auk 124:1083-1085.

Kerr, K. C. R., M. Y. Stoeckle, C. J. Dove, Lee A. Weigt, C. M. Francis, and P. D. N. Hebert. 2007. Comprehensive DNA barcode coverage of North American birds. Molecular Ecology Notes 7:535-543.

Kim, L. M., D. J. King, P. E. Curry, D. L. Suarez, D. E. Swayne, D. E. Stallknecht, R. D. Slemons, J. C. Pedersen, D. A. Senne, K. Winker, and C. L. Afonso. 2007. Phylogenetic diversity among low-virulence Newcastle disease viruses from waterfowl and shorebirds and comparison of genotype distributions to those of poultry-origin isolates. Journal of Virology 81:12641-12653.

Kinsella, J. M., A. S. Didyk, and A. G. Canaris. 2007. Helminths of Hudsonian Godwits, Limosa haemastica, From Alaska and Manitoba. Journal of Parasitology 93:716- 717.

Lorenz, S., and D. D. Gibson. 2007. Intermediate Egret (Egretta intermedia) in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Western Birds 38:57-59.

Maley, J., and K. Winker. 2007. The utility of juvenal plumage in diagnosing species limits: An example using buntings in the genus Plectrophenax. Auk 124:907- 915.

Pruett, C. L., and K. Winker. 2007. The effects of sample size on population genetic diversity estimates in Song Sparrows. Journal of Avian Biology 39:252-256.

Sonsthagen, S. A., S. L. Talbot, and K. G. McCracken. 2007. Genetic characterization of Common Eiders breeding in the Yukon-Kuskokwin Delta, Alaska. Condor 109:878-893.

Spackman, E., K. G. McCracken, K. Winker, and D. E. Swayne. 2007. An avian influenza virus from waterfowl in South America contains genes from North American avian and equine lineages. Avian Diseases 51:273-274.

Schwitters, M. T. 2007. First record of a Northern Lapwing in Alaska and western North America. Western Birds 38:145-146.

Wilson, R. E., S. A. Sonsthagen, C. P. Barger, and K. G. McCracken. 2007. Asymmetric molt or feather wear in Flying Steamer Ducks (Tachyeres patachonicus) from coastal habitats in Argentina. Ornitologia Neotropical 18:193-300.

Winker, K., K. G. McCracken, D. D. Gibson, C. L. Pruetll, R. Meier, F. Huettmann, M. Wege, I. V. Kulikova, Yu N. Zhuravlev, M. L. Perdue, E. Spackman, D. L. Suarez, and D. E. Swayne. 2007. Movements of birds and avian influenza from Asia into Alaska. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13:547-552.

2006 
Burg, T., A. J. Gaston, K. Winker, and V. L. Friesen. 2006. Effects of Pleistocene glaciations on population structure of North American Chestnut-backed Chickadees. Molecular Ecology 15:2409-2419.

Day, R. 2006. Seabirds in the northern Gulf of Alaska and adjacent waters, October to May. Western Birds 37:190Ð214.

Eda, M., Y. Baba, H. Koike, and H. Higuchi. 2006. Do temporal size differences influence species identification of archaeological albatross remains when using modern reference samples? Journal of Archaeological Science 33:349-359.

Gibson, D. D., and B. Kessel. 2006. Status and distribution of the Curlew Sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, in Alaska. International Wader Studies 19:27.

Martin, P. L, F. Bonier, and D. D. Gibson. 2006. First nest of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher for Alaska, with notes on breeding biology. Western Birds 37:8-22.

Omland, K. E., Baker, J. M. and Peters J. L. 2006. Genetic signatures of intermediate divergence: population history of Old and New World Holarctic ravens (Corvus corax). Molecular Ecology 15: 795-808.

Parchman, T., C. Benkman, S. Britch. 2006. Patterns of genetic variation in the adaptive radiation of New World crossbills (Aves:Loxia). Molecular Ecology 15:1873- 1887.

Piston, A. and S. Heinl. 2006. Confirmed Breeding of the Greater Yellowlegs in Southern Southeast Alaska. Western Birds 37:110Ð113.

Rocque, D. A., M. Ben-David, R. P. Barry, and K. Winker. 2006. Assigning birds to wintering and breeding grounds using stable isotopes: lessons from two feather generations among three intercontinental migrants. Journal of Ornithology 147: 395-404.

Sonsthagen, S. A., S. L. Talbot, R. B. Lanctot, K. T. Scribner, and K. G. McCracken. 2006. Population genetic structure of Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) nesting on coastal barrier islands adjacent to oil facilities in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska. U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service, Final Report OCS Study MMS 2006-40:1-94.

Spackman, E., K. G. McCracken, K. Winker, and D. E Swayne. 2006. H7N3 avian influenza virus found in a South American wild duck is related to the Chilean 2002 poultry outbreak, contains genes from equine and North American wild bird lineages, and is adapted to domestic turkeys. Journal of Virology 80:7760Ð7764.

Wilson, R. E., T. H. Valqui, and K. G. McCracken. 2006. Aberrant plumage in the Yellow-billed Pintail, Anas georgica. Wildfowl 56:192-196.

Winker, K., and C. L. Pruett. 2006. Seasonal migration, speciation, and morphological convergence in the Catharus thrushes (Aves: Turdidae). Auk 123:1052-1068.

2005 
Burg, T. M., A. J. Gaston, K. Winker, and V. L. Friesen. 2005. Rapid divergence and post-glacial colonization in western North American Steller's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri). Molecular Ecology 14:3745-3755.

Kulikova, I. V., S. V. Drovetski, D. D. Gibson, R. J. Harrigan, S. Rohwer, M. D. Sorenson, K. Winker, YU. N. Zhuravlev, and K. G. MacCraken. 2005. Phylogeography of the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos): Hybridization, dispersal, and lineage sorting contribute to complex geographic structure. Auk 122:949-965.

Lehman, P. 2005. Fall bird migration at Gambell, St. Lawerence Island, Alaska. Western Birds 36:2Ð55.

Peters, J. L., K. G. McCracken, R. E. Wilson, Y. N. Zhuravlev, Y. Lu, K. P. Johnson, and K. E. Omland. 2005. Phylogenetics of wigeons and allies (Anatidae: Anas spp.): The importance of sampling multiple loci and multiple individuals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35:209-224.

Pruett, C. L., and K. Winker. 2005. Biological impacts of climatic change on a Beringian endemic: Cryptic refugia in the establishment and differentiation of the rock sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis). Climatic Change 68:219-240.

Pruett, C. L., and K. Winker. 2005. Northwestern song sparrow populations show genetic effects of sequential colonization. Molecular Ecology 14:1421-1434.

Rocque, D. A., and K. Winker. 2005. The use of bird collections in contaminant and stable isotope studies. Auk 122:990-994.

Spackman, E., D. E. Stallknecht, R. D. Slemons, K. Winker, D. L. Suarez, M. Scott, and D. E. Swayne. 2005. Phylogenetic analyses of type A influenza genes in natural reservoir species in North American reveals genetic variation. Virus Research 114:89-100.

Winker, K. 2005. Bird collections: Development and use of a scientific resource. Auk 122:966-971.

2004
Dickerman, R. 2004. A review of the North American subspecies of the Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). Proceedings of the Biological society of Washington 117:242-250.

Drovetski, S. V., R. M. Zink, S. Rohwer, I. V. Fadeev, E. V. Nesterov, I. Karagodin, E. V. Koblik, and Y. A. RedÕkin. 2004. Complex biogeographic history of a holarctic passerine. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 271:545-551.

Erwing, C., Rozell, K. and DeCicco, L. 2004. Update on the status and distribution of WilsonÕs Phalarope and Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker in Alaska. Western Birds 3 5:42-44.

Fain, M. G., and P. Houde. 2004. Parallel radiations in the primary clades of birds. Evolution 58:2558-2573.

Hobson, K. A., E. H. Sinclair, J. R. Thomason, and R. E. Merrick. 2004. Retrospective isotopic analyses of StellerÕs Sea Lion tooth annuli and seabird feathers: A cross- taxa approach to investigating regime and dietary shifts in the Gulf of Alaska. Marine Mammal Science 20:621-638.

Pruett, C. L., and K. Winker. 2004. Biological impacts of climatic change on a Beringian endemic: Cryptic refugia in the establishment and differentiation of the Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis). Climatic Change 68:219-240.

Pruett, C. L., D. D. Gibson, and K. Winker. 2004. Amak Island Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia amaka) are not evolutionarily significant. Ornithological Science 3:133-138.

Rocque, D. A., and K. Winker. 2004. Biomonitoring of contaminants in birds from two trophic levels in the North Pacific. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23:759-766.

Wilson, R. E., S. D. Goldfeder, and K. G. McCracken. 2004. Bill sexual dichromatism of Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) and Speckled Teal (A. flavirostris). Ornitologia Neotropical 15:543-545.

Winker, K. 2004. Natural history museums in a post-biodiversity era. BioScience 54:455- 459.

July 2003 and older

Gibson, D. D., S. C. Heinl, and T. G. Tobish, Jr. 2003. Report of the Alaska Checklist Committee, 1997-2002. Western Birds 34:122-132.

Klicka, J. T., R. M. Zink, and K. Winker. 2003. Longspurs and snow buntings: Phylogeny and biogeography of a high-latitude clade (Calcarius). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evoution 26:165-175.

Cade, T. J., and E. C. Atkinson. 2002. Northern Shrike Lanius excubitor. In The Birds of North America, No. 671 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Elphick, C. S., and J. Klima. 2002. Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica. In The Birds of North America, No. 629 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America,Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Gill, R. E., P. S. Tomkovich, and B. J. McCaffery. 2002. Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis. In The Birds of North America, No. 000 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC. (In press)

Kessel, B., D. A. Rocque, and J. Barclay. 2002. Greater Scaup Aythya marila. In The Birds of North America, No. 650 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Winker, K., D. D. Gibson, A. L. Sowls, B. E. Lawhead, P. D. Martin, and E. P. Hoberg. 2002. The birds of St. Matthew Island, Bering Sea. Wilson Bull. 114:491-509.

Lowther, P., C. Rimmer, B. Kessel, S. Johnson, and W. Ellison. 2001. Gray-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus. In The Birds of North America, No. 591 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

Piston, A. W., and S. C. Heinl. 2001. First record of the European Golden-Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) from the Pacific. Western Birds 32:179-181.

Pruett, C. L., D. D. Gibson, and K. Winker. 2001. Molecular cuckoo clock suggests listing of western Yellow-billed Cuckoo may be warranted. Wilson Bulletin 113:228-231.

Weicker, J. J., and K. Winker. 2001. Sexual dimorphism in the birds from southern Veracruz, Mexico, and other localities. III. Wilson s Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla). Journal of Field Ornithology 73:62-69.

Benson, A.-M., T. H. Pogson, and T. J. Doyle. 2000. Updated geographic distribution of eight passerine species in central Alaska. Western Birds 31:100-105.

Holder, K., R. Montgomerie, and V. L. Friesen. 2000. Glacial vicariance and historical biogeography of rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) in the Bering region. Molecular Ecology 9:1265-1278.

Adkisson, C. S. 1999. Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator. In The Birds of North America, No. 456 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Day, R. H., K. J. Kuletz, and D. A. Nigro. 1999. Kittlitz's Murrelet Brachyramphus brevirostris. In The Birds of North America, no. 435 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia.

Garrison, B. A. 1999. Bank Swallow Riparia riparia. In The Birds of North America, No. 414 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Holder, K., R. Montgomerie, and V. L. Friesen. 1999. A test of the glacial refugium hypothesis using patterns of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence variation in Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus). Evolution 53:1936-1950.

Klicka, J., R. M. Zink, J. C. Barlow, W. B. McGillivray, and T. J. Doyle. 1999. Evidence supporting the recent origin and species status of the Timberline Sparrow. Condor 101:577-588.

McKenzie, P. M., and M. B. Robbins. 1999. Identification of adult male Rufous and Allen's hummingbirds, with specific comments on dorsal coloration. Western Birds 30:86-93.

Mowbray, T. 1999. American Wigeon Anas americana. In The Birds of North America, No. 401 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

Omland, K. E., Lanyon, S. M. and Fritz, S. J. 1999. A molecular phylogeny of the New World orioles (Icterus): the importance of dense taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12:224-239.

Tibbits, T. L., and W. Moskoff. 1999. Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes. In The Birds of North America, No. 427 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

American Ornithologists' Union. 1998. The A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists Union, Washington, D. C.

Austin, J. E., C. M. Custer, and A. D. Afton. 1998. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis. In The Birds of North America, No. 338. (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC. 

Badyaev, A. V., B. Kessel, and D. D. Gibson. 1998. Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava. In The Birds of North America, No. 382 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Dickerman, R. W., K. Winker, and D. D. Gibson. 1998. Sooty Tern reaches the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Western Birds 29:122-123.

Hayward, G. D. 1998. Townsend's Warbler Dendroica townsendi. In The Birds of North America, No. 333 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Holmes, R. T., and F. A. Pitelka. 1998. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos. In The Birds of North America, No. 348 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Houston, C. S., D. G. Smith, and C. Rohner. 1998. Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus. In The Birds of North America, No. 372 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Murphy, E. C. and W. A. Lehnhausen. 1998. Density and foraging ecology of woodpeckers following a stand-replacement fire. Jour. Wildl. Management 62:1359-1372.

Norment, C. J., P. Hendricks, and R. Santonocito. 1998. Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla. In The Birds of North America, No. 352 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Schukman, J. M., and B. O. Wolf. 1998. Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya. In The Birds of North America, No. 374 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the AOU, Washington, DC.

Sealy, S. G. 1998. The subspecies of the Northern Saw-whet Owl on the Queen Charlotte Islands: an island endemic and a nonbreeding visitant. Western Birds 29:21-28.

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Add all the old ones from the UAM.birds citations excel file.

Ellison, L. N. 1968. Sexing and aging Alaskan Spruce Grouse by plumage. Journal of Wildlife Management 32:12-16. [almost certainly used grouse parts that we got from ADF&G].



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