Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 143
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P. De Benedichis 1965 22 July Barrow, Alaska birds until I was out near HABS. Here I found that one of the semipal nest was hatching, the Pcttral Keet had hatched (young in the nest) and located all the semipals I knew to have made it. Nests 11+12 Dad hatched earlier and there was a dead chick in 11. Nest 23 was cold, 4 eggs. I ran back to the lab to get my camera to photograph the pectral chicks and right by the animal hut I found a very dead walble that appears to be Wilsonia canadensis. I took the camera out to the pectral nest + photographed the chicks + 2. In the afternoon went to the Vothana to check nests. All checked were empty and several semipal (with young) were noted along the road. There was a huge group of Plovers near IV-B and I walked a transect there. Walked VI-III, getting Pcttrals and 2 phalarope and saw a few more plovers, then came back and walked IIIA-B, finding 2 of dunlin (with chicks?) and seeing several semipals. The gaegeen don't appear to have hatched and some evidence of nut predation found. No evidence of phalarope hatching. There were a few Glareous geell on the ridge south of South Self hogoon including a few puzzling cinnamates. Stayed in the evening writing monolo. Movie was "BoLite", which was good! There was little evidence of eider flight until the evening when shots from duck camp + several flecks on the lead attracted to it.