About the Authors

Cameron J. Nordell

Contributed equally to this work with: Cameron J. Nordell, Samuel Haché

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Samuel Haché

Contributed equally to this work with: Cameron J. Nordell, Samuel Haché

samuel.hache@canada.ca

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

Erin M. Bayne

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Péter Sólymos

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kenneth R. Foster

Affiliation Owl Moon Environmental Inc., Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Christine M. Godwin

Affiliation Owl Moon Environmental Inc., Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Richard Krikun

Affiliation Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada

Peter Pyle

Affiliation Institute for Bird Populations, Point Reyes Station, California, United States of America

Keith A. Hobson

Affiliations Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The commercial affiliation with Owl Moon Environmental Inc. does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials (as detailed online in our guide for authors, http://www.PLOSone.org/static/editorial.action#competing).

Author Contributions

Formal analysis: PS SH CJN EMB KAH. Methodology: CJN SH EMB KRF CMG RK PP KAH. Project administration: SH. Writing – original draft: CJN SH EMB KAH PS KRF CMG PP. Writing – review & editing: CJN SH EMB KAH PS KRF CMG PP.