Alaska Species Accounts, Part. 2, v4425
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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.