Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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T. Code 1958 Falco rusticolus 3 August - food The juvenile was following. It flew in close and took the prey in its feet from the parent bird, left as the turns- -her was being effected, the juvenile thooped the prey. Malcolm examined it and found the back and hindquarters of a ground squirrel. Later in the day he saw wolves eating this piece of squirrel. Apparently the gyps nested somewhere on the fogged rooftops of quantzito just north of the lake on the right limit of the view. The juvenile - a F, apparently has just fledged. 4-8 August - The falcons have been seen or heard on each of these days. The juvenile now ranges about a mile but from the cliff and was even heard skimming across the river on the 8th, 17 August Okefisk Lake - one or more seen or heard on the hill nearly every day during this period. The light itself flew over the stubs on 17th to make pass at my eyas peregrines. 22 August Jugal Lake - while my eyas peregrine was flying to the lure, stooping back and forth, about 1800, a large, dark gray juvenile gyrfalcon suddenly appeared in the air above her. It