Thank you to the reviewers of the 2022 Ornithological Applications, volume 124

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I am grateful to those of you who found time to review manuscripts for Ornithological Applications in 2022. Even as the pandemic ebbed, we all had numerous challenges and demands on our time yet we were still able to publish our journal and contribute to society’s knowledge about how to conserve and manage birds. A rigorous and fair peer review process anchors our success, our scientific integrity, and our ability to inform one of the key challenges of our era, the loss of biodiversity. For volume 124, the list of reviewers includes 142 generous colleagues. I am especially grateful to individuals identified with asterisks; they reviewed two, or even three manuscripts. On behalf of Ornithological Applications, I thank all of them for their timely and conscientious work. Managing reviewers is mostly the job of our dedicated associate editors, whose names appear on the journal’s masthead. They too, along with our senior editors, the In Memoriam and Book Review editors, and the tireless professional staff at the AOS Publications Office, dealt with personal and professional challenges related to the pandemic but still managed to perform the work for the journal we collectively produce. Many and sincere thanks to all.