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Catharacta maccormicki:
Jan 9
adult makes lunge & it backs off. Makes a
lunge toward very young chick being brooded at
edge of same colony. Ad lunges & stares, chick
backs off
3:40 308 One ad walks around enclosure,
feeds on a second carcass, mate eventually
flies over & joins it. Finally one flies off across
core.
2:42 Ad slows flying from core passes
low over 308, circles territory & flies back
across core. Sitting ad. gave no notice. Do this at
nights?
3:52 Morning 308 ad now present preceding
chickadee. Probably from 308.
3:58 Creeping ad returns from W side
territory lands by nest then flies in. Feeds
chick & flushes out on can. Other ad.
flies with enclosure stands present not, chick
doesn't beg from it. This ad. leaves next to only one
of cans.
4:10 Banded 331 walks over to penguin colony
- lunching with neck withdrawn, body elongated
a "sneaky" look, gaze at something is chased
by ad penguin & decoy. Sets 15 feet from colony.
4:22 Ad of 308, the one standing on can &
beside one who fed chick, that suddenly lands
at edge of colony some 20 feet from me grabs
a chick by neck & tugs it away a foot