Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
487
Salmone Pacific Kittiwake @
1931
Breeder on the island. Nearly every
line of sea cliffs has its quota of
Kittiwake nests. From a boat
in the water the forms of the
Kittiwake dot the face of the rock
cliffs like so many white spots.
They may be seen at almost any time,
foraging along the shore.
These ubiquitous gulls are to be
seen at every part of call & even
out to sea. They are undoubtedly the
Commonest Bird of the Bering
Sea region - at least commonest,
if not the most numerous. They are
much subject to the depredations &
annoyances of Jaegers (Roraimie),
but I have never seen them
fight back. Noted at Nome,
Columbi, Teller, Kotzebue.
Point Hope, Arctic Ocean, Alaska
Aug r. Pacific Kittiwakes were
encountered in moderate numbers
all along the 30 mile length of
the Sand spit peninsula. Natives
say they bred on the cliffs at Cape