Acknowledgements
Funding provided to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission through the
Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid Wildlife Restoration Grant, J.P. Poston
from the Department of Environment and Sustainability at Catawba
College, and T.J. Boves from the College of Sciences and Mathematics at
Arkansas State University. D.P.L.T. was supported by Pennsylvania State
University and startup funds from the Eberly College of Science and the
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. We thank several partner agencies
for permitting access to and data collection on their properties,
including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, N.C.
Division of Parks and Recreation, N.C. Forest Service, and The Nature
Conservancy. We also thank Alix E. Matthews, Emily R. Donahue, Macayla
Upright, Jacqueline Poston, Scott Poston, John Poston, Grace Poston, and
Benjamin Nickley for their help collecting field samples. All birds were
captured and handled under the auspices of U.S. Geological Survey
federal banding permits #23877 and #06557, as well as IACUC protocols
approved by Arkansas State University (Protocol #FY17-18-319).