Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
T. Code
1958
Stercorarius parasiticus
6 July Barrow - flock of 7 light phase
birds near new Walschlag Slough
this afternoon. Three juvenile seen
yesterday in the Vath area - all
dark.
7 July Barrow to S. Bow-3 - total of
9 seen (see general account)
9 July Uniat, Alaska - 2 block ones were
seen sitting on a man-made mound of
moss on the second terrace between
T6 & T7. They flew out of the area
as the vessel approached.
12 July Uniat - two block birds seen perched
on mounds east of alligator wood - in
same general vicinity of July 9 observation.
7 August Okjiluk Lake - a group of 4 jaegers was
seen flying up the river valley in the
late evening. Not certainly this species-
may have been longicaudis but they
were gamboling in the air and giving
the "meow" call. Does longicaudis give
this call? (See Maher).
August Okjiluk Lake - a dark phase individual
flew over the lake late in the evening
while we were waiting for the air-
plane.
August Jogolake - two block individuals flew
over camp at 1700 and attacked reef