Field notes: Alaska, v4401
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J.M. Brodie 1957 Journal Barrow, Northern Alaska Aug 19 During the course of the day a party of three people from A.R.L. John O'Sullivan, Jerry Brown, and George Rosenfield returned from a trip about three miles south of the gas well where they caught a golden eagle alive. The bird must be sick. Guessed age 1 about a year, it is not a full grown bird. They claimed the bird flew, but weakly. They caught it and brought it back - it was placed in a small warijan in back of A.R.L. A live lemming was thrown in with the bird. The rodent was immediately noticed by the bird but the bird did not react. With every move of the mouse the bird seemed to react until after about 4-5 minutes of waiting the bird pounced with a lightening fast movement with one foot into the lemming and started tearing it apart. A few lemmings are processed. Aug 20 An Arctic tern and a ground squirrel were procured as skins. The ground squirrel is one of Ingrid Dayne's which was captured earlier in the season and kept alive until today. It was originally caught at Cape Beaufort on July 3, 1957