JPUnger 1976 Calidris melanotos GRID 3, Barrow, Alaska 21 June cont'd rolling call, settled in to grou + made next-cup motions for ~2 sec, shuffling side to side while belly against ground w/ tail cocked. Note - a behavior seen regularly in Alert-preening -> Peck or peck at on its mound + twiddles with the central breast feathers, or sometimes scrapes the feather of the dark breast area. Occasionally scapular. This bird is so engaged w/in 1m of q. He then flew + hooked for 6 sec directly over her (see min 81 of 6/21-2 tracking accent). But at min 82 he was hooking over a 2nd q.!!. She was eventually chased from territory - see tracking accent) The q which copulated was plainly visible at time, preening near "next-cup" site. 24 June the form of a feeding Bruleator is quite characteristic, mostly because of the joggling of the his wattle as he probes the mud. Combined with its frequent pause in feeding to look up in an alert posture, or to run up the nearest mound, it is unmistakable. border flutter flight - tail fanned, breast hanging, occasionally hoots, wings fluffed as butterfly 2-8" fly along border, parallel, and within 1m of one another. The wing fluttering is shallow + rapid, but never reaches horizontal plane Thus See next second pages the amount of fluttering is disproportionate to the relatively small horizontal distance traveled. Note - when in alert posture the feathers of the neck are ruffled, given such a black center. Well, that is what it looks like