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P. DeBenedictis
1965
Nyctea scandica
21 July Barrow, Alaska - without flight feathers. About 15 adults, including the parents of this bird, along the
shore but more dispersed, moving into the area
occupied earlier by jaegers.
22 July The group that had been at the Send Family hayson
dispersed, but the Vinnell people working here, which
must account for it. One behind the lab had a
lemming.
23 July The owls that had been set by the Send of Family's
hayson appear to have moved into the area along
the ridge by blizzard.
24 July The nest on the polygons SSE of line II with
5 small young in the bowl and 1 much larger bird
struggling about outside - cetera, one off licking or three
was quite a gap between the 1st hatch and the others.
Obviously no lemming shortage as at least 17 dead
ones, all moderate to large, on the bowl's edge,
25 July Two additional nests seen west of Iktuavik. The
only one checked with 6 young and 1 egg; the egg evidently
infertile as the smallest young was several days (10½) old.
Adults were seen regularly and one loose
centration was seen SE of Iktuavik. They appear
to be in about the same density as closer to the lab.
29 July Only 3-4 along Elson hayson and 4-5 across Woldoslay
Slough. The pair not around the Beart Point Nest. Found a
nest, no adults present, with two jaeger-eaten eggs
in the polygonised area south of lines XIII, XIV, and saw
quite a few adults in the area.