Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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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.