Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Code
1957
S-tercoravies pomarivinus
8 June - 3 seen flying over Central Marsh
around 1400. One melanistic.
One seen flying along coast near airstrips
about 1930.
10 June - Numbers seen while flying to Beaufort and
back - see cruces sheets.
11 June. About a dozen were seen in the
immediate area of the townsets NE of
the village. There must be 20 or more
in the immediate environs of the village.
One held to a certain area between
T1 and the coast, and one between T4
and the lake displayed, closed, and
released several times when other jagers
came near.
One flock of 6 was seen clearing a
single individual that was carrying a
berrying.
13 June, Wainwright, Alaska - I watched 6-8 individuals
around T3-T4 few about an hour to see
whether or not any courting was going on.
Several times, two birds would sit closer
to one another, but at no time did I see
any displays. They seemed to be simply resting,
a few individuals seem to be mildly
territorial - or at least aggressive toward
other jagers - but for the most part they fly
at random over the area.