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Cack
1958
Phalacopus fulicarius
28 June cont
At 20.30 I checked this nest again and
the young were already gone.
1 July
Barrow - 247 c 137 rem an
a.3 brood tupp - great reduction
in numbers from two weeks ago.
July
Barrow to South Barrow Three -
a total of 63 rem (see general
account). Two nests were
found, each with 4 eggs & 5737
incubating. One located on east
side of Drovocarik Lake - situated
on a low moss mound by a small
pond. Nest scrape lined with dried
redge-grass, with a canopy of dead
redge stems overlapping above.
2nd nest SE of the Lake - also on low
moss mound in a wet (muddied)
redge-grass marsh; lined with redge
and with a redge canopy.