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).