Calidris melanotus -2 2 June 87-Ha. Meade River Carol Mino, 157°25'W, 70°29'N, Alaska are in small flocks. Saw one bird in flight that looked like a F, and one bird feeding in a field (sedge bed with 1-2" of water standing on ice and poplar ground. Many birds are flying across the river and there is some "hootery" from them. One or two through camp at mid-day. A few males seen in camp in the afternoon and 3-4 Fs near the "creek plot" in the evening. Saw 2Fs with a group of 6 dunlin (they, about 10 AM, feeding in a polygon trough. 3 June Several (4-5) Fs near the field, and some song heard. They feed out in the [illegible] polygons where they are nearly impossible to see. Occ. Fs stationed on high spots of the polygon ridges. Saw one prolonged fight between two males, which never seemed to be really resolved. One F appeared dominant throughout. The two birds would walk side by side in a crouched position, then one would go into a cup right position, its throat 1/2 inflated, and jump up 1-2 feet, its legs dangling, and fly over the other bird, which puffed its tail at and pec. pecked at the flying bird. After the wing was flipped just before a bird took off. fight lasted 3+ min. and the birds went 30'-40' up a snow bank and back down before one bird gave up and flew off; the other fed near this area, later took a station on a polygon ridge but ignored