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Remsen,
J.V.
1972
Journal
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1- high polygons near
Footprint Lake
Red Phalarope 30- caught and banded 4
chicks
Pomarine Jaeger 10
Parasitic Jaeger 10
Long-tailed Jaeger 300
Glaucous Gull 8
Snowy Owl 4
Lapland Longspur 40
Snow Bunting 15
Lemmings: 4 Site 1
Predators: One incredible flock of 250 Long-tailed Jaegers
SW of Footprint Lake; another flock of 45 on Village Ridge,
which had 10 Parasitics among them.
Longspurs: Opened IBP traps 0830 and closed them at
2100. 27 captures, including 1 juvenile.
Shorebirds: New wave of Pectorals and Golden Plovers; Jeff
Myll also recorded very similar #s of both on IBP Bird
Transect - perhaps same groups of birds; especially since he
also saw a Buff-breasted. 2 Dunlins heard still displaying.
Caught and banded 4 Red Phalarope young at Footprint Lake:
7.0, 5.9, 5.5, 5.5 g. Red Phalarope nest found on 9 July
near Trapline IV-A was empty; that one also found
near there on 10 July still had 4 eggs.
Migration: 2 Arctic Loons overhead. Flocks of 250, 45
Long-tailed Jaegers. 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 70 Golden
Plovers, 60 Pectoral Sandpipers in wandering group.