Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
1985 Mark Stanback
M. formicivorus
BLM 3
H N H R
20 June 1030 2nd nest. Saw an adult in the
nest sticking head out. Saw 2 babies.
Nest is .5 m above first nest.
1400 Measured 5 fresh eggs in the nest
1 24.1 x 19.3
2 24.5 x 19.3
3 24.3 x 19.0
4 23.7 x 19.1
5 23.9 x 19.1
1430 Saw 5 birds at BLM 2. One was
baby 1056, another 8 989. All 5
birds flew in the general direction of BLM 3.
27 June 1530 flushed bird from nest. Only 4 eggs
in the nest. Egg #1 missing. Other
eggs very dirty.
1 July 1100 Nest empty.
4 July 1030-1145 census. Not going well. Baby 1056
in nest tree when I arrived. Now 1130 and no birds
since. I heard some toward BLM 2