Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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Cade 1956 Stercorarius parasiticus 24 June Umiat, Alaska A dark plover bird, and one normal one seen together on tundra between T7 & T5. They appeared to be a pair. One sat the dark, and the other hovered near it for several records and would not leave the area. The collected bird #44 was 8?. Its crop was empty. 27 June A melwistici bird was seen in the area of T7 in the morning. 28 June Seen again in the morning. 10 August Two were seen east of T5 near the road to seal hill. They were swooping and diving at a snow ploverine. The plover was attempting to keep to the air, and the jaegers were trying to force it to ground. After ca. 30 sec., the plover was exhausted and dropped into snow cover. One of the jaegers was down immediately and folded about in the vegetation with its beak and soon came up with the bird. The other jaeger landed and they held a "tug of war" over the plover. We finally broke loose and swallowed the bird whole. 11 August In the same area as above one was seen to chase a teal for a couple hundred yards. Teal finally hit a lake and dived,