Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Gilmore
1931
ALEUTIAN SANDPIPER (2)
Sept. 18 (Same locality) I took three more
which seems to be almost the last
of the flock of almost a dozen that
fling out on the gravelly-sandy beach
at the S.E. end of town. Their note
when in flight seems to be a harsh
high pitched cry. It is so low as to
be scarcely audible.
I have only seen them pull their
wing stretching stunt once.
Sept. 19 On the rocky wave washed
beach at the west entrance to Summer's
Bay I saw a fair feeding. They flew
around the surf pounded boulders at
my approach & seemed much at home
in the flying spray.
Sept. 22 Whalaska. Found three birds
common among the wave pounded rocks
& rocky beaches in Summer's Bay. At
first they allowed me to approach 8
or 10 feet as they perched on a large rock. However, after
a little shooting they became rather
wary & they never left the vicinity
entirely, generally flying a hundred yds.
or so off away from the place they
were flushed. Their alarm note seems