5. Acknowledgements
EHS was supported by a NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership
studentship from the Natural Environment Research Council (grant
NE/L002434/1) and is thankful for the support and additional funding
from CASE partner the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (grant
210-x-1656). The authors thank the Welsh Ornithological Society for
providing additional funding. The authors would like to thank Will Kirby
and all the members of the Hawfinch ringing group for assistance with
sample collection, and to Angela Marchbank and Trudy Workman of the
Cardiff University Genomics Hub for assistance with high-throughput
sequencing. Thanks also to Lorna Drake and Sarah Davies for training and
advice in bioinformatics.