Alaska field notes, v4469
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A.M. Verbeek 1966 Arenaria interpres (4) direction, as did an other bird which was still in the nest. It looked like they moved in response to a large moving object (myself) Found a partial eggshell about 112 m from the nest. 13 July One dead young in the nest, and two young about 100m from the nest. Collected the dead young. 14 July Tom caught one of the young of nest 4 in his tiny birthday 26 July. At Meade River I saw one bird scolding me, as I walked along the shore of a large lake about 2 km S. of camp. 30 July One bird over our camp to-day. 4 Aug. One bird along the river bank 3 km N of camp 11 Aug. Brick at Barrow, I did not see any Turnstones to-day. 13 Aug One juvenile S. of North Meadow lake 17 Aug There were 4 birds along the ocean shore W of the airport and I saw three more birds near the Point (Duck camp) 24 Aug. One bird on the Drum Area. 25 Aug. One bird along the S. shore of South Salt Lagoon. 27 Aug. There were 5 birds feeding on the gravelly shore of a pond S. of the NASA site.