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Transcription
JP Myers
1976
Eudromias movinellus
Gasline Ridge, Barrow, Alaska
'12 June
running transect 6 at 1045 saw 3 plowers - a golden + two slightly smaller
birds rising to tower over the wind of gasline. I did not get a good look,
but detected a sharp boundary between breast (dark) and belly. Also the
torpedoish quality of the flight - flash Dottrel. But even though I chased them
to gas-line ridge, a zoom from original position, I lost them. Then at 1245
within 70 m of stake 10, tran 8, I found them, a pair of Eudromias.
Following description taken from notes scribbled in the field:
larger bird - dark crown, almost black all the way to bill, outlined by a
pronounced superciliary white stripe which circles around the back of the
head, meeting in a V on the back. Gives the bird, when seen from the
rear, a dottrel-ish profile
[illegible] dark, white throat.
upper breast brown-grey defined by a dark line through the center of the
breast juxtaposed with a white line below it
[illegible] dark
[illegible] white
[illegible] various sides of breast
with dark belly.
[illegible] black
grey brown back with darker streaking particularly on
wings when wings folded. much to a quality like Orcopelos.
below the dark upper belly is a sharp break w/ white (below) to the vent.
yellow legs, black bill.
smaller bird - same except that forehead is streaked greyish instead of a solid
black.
The birds were foraging as do typical plowers -