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Transcription
T. Code
1958
Falco rusticolus
3 August Okfjilak Lake
At 0955 I looked up from camp toward
the high outcrop of rugged quartzite about
1/4 mile south of the lake just in time to
see a very light colored gyrfalcon fly
off one of the pinnacles and work its way
along the wall of the valley toward
camp. It alighted on an outcrop about
200 yds away, and I watched it three 7x50
liners for several minutes. From that
distance the bird appeared quite white
but with definite dark markings on
the feathers. Later, however, I found
a molted tail feather, and it is a light
whitish gray - not the pure white of the
candicans type.
At 1630 this bird, now recognized
as a jeshin by its size, was seen flying
around in the same area as this morning.
It was being followed closely in the
air by a food begging juvenile much
larger than it and of the clark gray
shade. Then a large adult 9 of the
blue-gray type flew out from a high
pinnacle and circled over the valley uttering
hoarse, dog-like cacks. A little later
in the day Bill Malcom saw the light
jeshin carrying something in its talons.