Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Fulica Americana
173
Jan 20
Univ. Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
Was a fox (remains near trail, fox
hair on nearby barbed wire; many
feathers left, Tag among the feathers)".
Jack Parker
Found Sat Jan 8, 1958
1/4 mi. NE of Jewel Lake
Think it was a fox (remains
near trail, fox hair on nearby
barbed wire; many feathers left, Tag
among the feathers)
Jan 22
Jewel Lake, 510 ft. Tilden Park, Contra Costa Co., Calif.
Six coots on the lake today, none of them
tagged. I'm not even sure that I
can have seen the B bird with only
the safety pin remaining. Territory
behavior is not well developed. A
couple of instances of possible
territoriality were observed (see next page)
but on the whole little defense or
aggression was noted. The pair
(from which both ♂ + ♀ notes have been
heard) occupying the S end both have
swollen shields, at least one of the
two birds in the NW corner seemed
to have a swollen shield. Two more
birds, both of which have been
chased at the NW corner, did not
appear to have swollen shields,
but this I must check further.