Alaska journal, v4433
Page 85
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Maclean 1968 Journal (17 June) Pectorals are settled along suitable habitar, but not in any great densities. Pdrolling territories are covering very large areas. Phaloropes appear to be getting down to business. Still much bairdii display, but the longspurs and redbacks have already quieted down. Spend the evening at the second nala katak. Again, a warm rain fell for a fair part of the evening. 18 June Barrow, Alaska Foggy, again. The morning counting berlise returns and sorting already extracted samples to test efficiency. Again, it was 100%. After finishing this Pete and I went out to the area in lamo from the navy communications van. Semi-pale there in active display, as if newly arrived. Saw no bairdii and found no puzillie nests - just 1 four-egg Arenaria nest. Went in about '14 mile and took 800 samples - 8 from a sat. flat and 8 from a low polygon trough system. These were from areas just exposed by melt, so that all 4 series of samples taken to date represent a melt- off sample. Spend the evening hand-sorting the samples just removed from the funnels. The extraction efficiency was very poor. One of the samples was quite dry, yet yielded 3