Erratum to: Conserv Genet (2015) 16:1041–1053 DOI 10.1007/s10592-015-0721-5

In the original publication of the article, the data in the middle bar graphs of Fig. 1 showed total Shannon diversity over all loci, not Shannon diversity per locus as is more typically portrayed. To avoid confusion, the author has provided a modified figure in this erratum, in which Shannon diversity is divided by a factor of eight (the number of microsatellite loci used).

Fig. 1
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Genetic diversity as measured by allelic diversity, Shannon diversity, and expected heterozygosity estimated from bootstrap simulations. a Comparison across six continental red-winged blackbird (‘‘Cont. RWBL’’, black) populations, one island red-winged blackbird (‘‘Bah. RWBL’’, black) population, and the yellow-shouldered blackbird (‘‘YSBL’’, gray) population, with resample size of 20. b Comparison between Bahamas red-winged blackbirds and yellow-shouldered blackbirds, with resample size of 60. The yellow-shouldered blackbirds have significantly less genetic diversity than both continental and island red-winged blackbird populations