Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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Cole 1957 Stercorarius pomarinus 24 June, Unmist - A single light-phase bird flew over the airstrip about 1900. It did not stop but kept on reprever and out of sight. 26 June, Unmist - a single jaeger-not certainly this species was seen flying high down- rever about 2136 in the evening. 5-16 July Point Lay About 10 individuals seen in two drops and 2 collected. Three of these are collected, seems in the dark phase. Not rem at this locality. 27-30 July Pitt Point Very common all over the areas covered earlier by Malaw. Many pairs seem to have broken up or moved no longer maintaining close association, and territory boundaries are breaking down, so that it is very difficult to get an accurate count of individuals. In general I would say there has been no major change in numbers since Malaw's survey- that is, there seem to be birds at or around all the nest sites and "pair-locations" indicated on his map. The decline people, however, say they have that a good number since