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P. D. Benedictus
1945
Stevcorarius pomarivius
13 July Barrow, Alaska appear to have flacked up again
and were seen fighting over something on the ground.
A group of 3 replaced a "f" seen earlier in this
area. The last nest found in the U8TH area (7 July)
was empty and one of the pair had been shot.
14 July The nest near the 10 steaks on Pitella's plot seems
to have been broken up and the nest along the
woeol road still contains one egg. Still flacked out
in the WE part of Central Marsh. (The 1st nest (July 17)
we found has been unsteaked again - parents no
longer aggressive till might have been broken up July 13)
15 July The birds at the nest near HACS again close at
the Semipal. Sandpiper at Nast 13 when it went off
in a distraction display, missing it on two occasions.
16 July Found 2, 2 egg nests where the Elor Lagoon woed
road crosses the Beach Ridge, one nest with a
piped egg. One nest along here has been broken up,
the egg ? cut in wolf and one adult dead. The
incubation patches are quite interesting, obviously
for 2 eggs only
A nest found 22 June and probably the one
sleaked again 24 June contained one egg, I check
each and the shell of its egg. The nest had been marked
and the steak was lying on the ground; even if this
nest was wrong it's only other steaked nest in the area