About the Authors

George F. Barrowclough

gfb@amnh.org

Affiliation Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York United States of America

Joel Cracraft

Affiliation Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York United States of America

John Klicka

Affiliation Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Robert M. Zink

Affiliation School of Natural Resources, Nebraska State Museum, and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GFB JC JK RMZ. Data curation: GFB JK. Formal analysis: GFB. Funding acquisition: JC. Investigation: GFB JC JK RMZ. Methodology: GFB JC JK RMZ. Project administration: GFB RMZ. Resources: GFB JC JK RMZ. Software: GFB. Supervision: GFB. Validation: GFB RMZ JK. Visualization: GFB JK. Writing – original draft: GFB RMZ JC. Writing – review & editing: GFB JC JK RMZ.