Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 67
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R. DeBenelli 1965 13 June Barrow, Alaska in territorial display, and little feeding was seen. In the afternoon Bob Hamilton and I walked aret along the W side Family hogoon about ½ way to the VOTH area. There were good number of shorebirds present, including Bairds, Pelecanus, and White-crowned which weren't present yesterday and a Tree Sparrow in place of the juncos. There was considerable exposed tundra and many puddles of ice water as well as water in the troughs. Saw a number of lemmings in the area. It was wind and rain in the late afternoon; didn't go out in the evening, at all. May have seen a sanddollar in the morning. 14 June Spent the AM at ARL writing notes + processing lemmings. Saw 5 Tojagers. In the afternoon Dr. Pitelka + I went checking on snowy Owl meet in this area along Elson hogoon to the area S of Ukpik Slough. It was cold and overcast and quite windy; there was little activity except for lemmings and jocgers throughout most of the area except on the highlands along Elson hogoon and the sloughs, where there was extensive exposed Tundra. Lemmings were numerous throughout the area, and I saw more than in the previous walk here; Dr. Pitelka stepped on one. The shorebirds were noisy but saw little clear courtship behavior; there were large #s of