Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Makers
1960
Journal
Nov.12 when I have been watching. However,
I found confusion still when only one pr
member was marked. Decided to go over
this tomorrow by hand a few.
adgacent pairs.
Put up 3 Snow petrel skins in
evening. They are horribly fat.
Nov.13 Hallett Station, Cape Hallett, Antarctica.
Collin Bailey and I spent the morning
at the sluey mousing + marking lenses.
Unfortunately the attempt to catch
specific individual birds was compli-
cated by the fact that a cloud (1-2 dozen
at time) of skuas converged on the
bait so many that territorial
bird usually could not keep them
away. Never we trapped several bird
that were not of the pairs I have been
watching. I returned there after noon +
watched. It turned out that we had both
members from pair marked + one member
of several others.
After supper Keith Wise, Don Dangle+
myself returned + tried to catch some
of these unmarked birds. We spent an hour
or so + did mark at least one we wanted
but again this was complicated by outsiders
coming in to feed. Put up 3 snow petrel