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M. Brock
1957
July 8 Stercorarius parasiticus
Barrow, northern Alaska
When going out to check trapline
X in the afternoon, I noticed as I
approached the trapline a dark
phase parasitic jaeger flying back
and forth over the trapline. It would
fly away for a distance and then
return but never land - maybe due
to my presence. When I checked
the trapline a bird had been caught
and
in a trap at 5.4 which had been so
completely eaten I was not sure what the
bird was (maybe a longspur). Then in
a trap at stake 6.6 a longspur had
been caught and was nearly completely
eaten. The only conclusion seems to
be that it was probably this jaeger
that I saw that had eaten the two birds.
A longspur & in a trap at stake 8.4
and a lemming at 2.4 were untouched.
July 18 When I was approaching transects
IVA + B this morning I noticed four
parasitic jaegers diving continuously
at something on the ground fly
up and dive at the ground. They
were located about 1/2 mile north
of Transect TK. When I approached
that area they flew away and