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T. Code
1958
Stercorarius pomarinus
18 June - east of Barrow
On the flight with Mahew and S. Shanks I
saw a total of 5 - all near POWA. Mahew
saw several others from his side of the
plane.
20 19 June - Barrow
Brock and I saw two or three flying
over the tundra in the south part of
Central Marsh. They were circling back
and forth at a rather high altitude for
a jaeger - somewhere around 200 ft.
20 June - Barrow - two jaegers were seen in
Central Marsh around 2030. Both
flew and landed and flew several
times. One of them, after landing, appeared
to perform some incipient or low
intensity "choking" behaviour arching
its neck and bending its head down, but
the tail was not tilted up at all. The
other bird paid no attention to it.
21 June - One seen flying over Central Marsh
at 1523
22 June - at 1510 a flock of 9 was seen flying
cross near T9E10 and at 1445 a flock
of 12 struggled over the beach ridge.
23 June - at 1330 one was seen hunting
over south end of Central Marsh.
May have been after shorebird eggs.