Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 95
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P. DeBenedictis 1965 28 June. Barrow, Alaska There were almost no shore birds evident at all in this area (but noted a few species in Miccineet Marsh I had not seen earlier). The area here was relatively quiet. hemmingup were about equally distributed everywhere from Miccineet or and not as conspicuous; not many dead trees. found a fairly fresh dead Snowy Owl and 2 dead Gloucester gulls and 1 single nest of Por. Jaeger, Baird's and Pectoral, and saw a Dunlin's nest found by Pitelka. In the evening checked the nests behind the lab finding No change except the Baird's Nest gained a new longspur. L-T. Saw 4 swans and one of the pallidly Tengas I have seen in some times. 29 June. Went out in the morning with Bob Hamilton to hines I + II to see how the traps are now, and to do a little bird walking This was with around although I saw the swans again and a number of phalaropes in the Meadow Lake area. Very few calidris longs most species represented and saw 2 jaeger nests which I couldn't get at. Saw the Baird's nest found yesterday and found a single egg, prob. Golden Plover, on a wetty bare polygon, although didn't see any plovers. Skinned a Red Phalarope found with a broken wing near Miccineet at about the rest of the morning. In the after noon went towards the Voth area to look for nests and make feeding observations. Birds were very scarce except phalaropes but there are closely more Semipals around them we have