Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
60.
15 Oct. 1964 At 0740 I found Stadel watching
the Frigato colony - wherein reside 9 yng, ≈ 10
adult ♂ & 2 ♀. 10 minutes later, when a ♀
flies over, all the ♂'s give a display. The
wings are outspread & inflated, the head
thrown back, & the bill drooping, all accompanied
by a vocalization harsh & screeching. The ♀
flew back & forth over the colony before
'settling down. When I return to the colony with
a camera, the area has been disturbed
to the ♂ have all deflated their pouches. ♀♀
flying over fail to elicit the response.
After lunch we begin surveying the wedge-
tail bunros to ascertain how many yng are
present & how many burrows have been dug.
We poke sticks into 848 burrows, finding ≈ ½ empty,
& find 102 chicks in their burrows. We prob.
missed a few. We banded 73 chicks, most
of which have all flight feathers growing in.
It is remarkable that most chicks are
in the same developmental stage - there is
very little spread in characters at all.
We moved the mist net to a better location
in the hopes of catching shrub-lands.
Return from made out - AM.
Catch 1 golden plovers in net - #642-01154. #1
written on fessae.
We count wedge-tails - ≈ 3500 Adults counted, with