Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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Cable 1957 Stercorarius pomarinus 27-30 July Pitt Point by the owl when I scared it away. (Later the quell returned and took the prey back). Another pair was seen hovering a brood of stellar eiders. At first I thought the jäegers were after the chicks. But they was not the case. They came after an added egg - left in the eider's nest. They landed and leapt at from the broken-open egg while hen and chick eiders swam around in pond not 10 feet away. Several individuals were seen leveling near- longfryers and sand pipers as though attempting an attack. The quell levels always "fly sep" when a jäegers comes over. One pair. SW of owl nest #4 was new to attack an Arctic Fox repeatedly over a course of 30yds. The fox was actually hit in the sweep several times, and it would jump up & twist around as the jäegers attacked from behind. The one young hooded printrunner's 3 weeks long & tail feathers 1 inch long. It was hiding in a wet ditch in green reeds ca 8 miles north.