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Maclean
1967
Journal
8 June
Evidence of incubation. Pectorals were confusing - ♂ were very abundant
but ♀ were scarce. ♂ were displaying
and loosely territorial. They quickly chased
any female that I managed to flush. Saw
a number of solitary Buff-Breeds, with
some wing waving.
Walked over a lot of tundra without
scaring a ♀ pectoral off of a nest, and
only 1 alpina. Shot a ♂ + ♀
pectoral, then a plover on the way in
and arrived in time for a late dinner.
Spent the evening working on these
specimens and others collected in past
few days.
19 June
Barrow, Alaska
Spent the morning finishing up specimens
and notes. Both Tom and Karl want to
mark birds so Tom and Dan prepared
mist nets while I stayed out of the way
by putting hardware cloth racks in
our new bank of 8 bertés funnels.
Went out to the drum area to put the
mist net into operation. Set it by
a telephone pole and tried to herd
longspurs and sandpipers, with little
success. Decided to leave the net set
and see what flies into it.