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R.E. Johnson
1968
May 30 Anchutka Island, Alaska (cont.)
to retain unhatched eggs. It is not clear how
the eggs reached the floor - accident or intentional
by parent.
A dead spay finch was found in a paint
can in a barn and another was found on a
shelf in a quonset hut. Another such bird
had been noted in the notes of May 29.
No nests have been noted on metal
shelves though many quonset huts have
them. Perhaps these are avoided? - due to
their greater conductivity as a nest substate?
The data on nest location with regard to type
of building in areas A+B north of Old Camp (see
map under May 28) are tabulated on the next
page. As with data for the area SW of South
Hanger (see table under May 27), the quonset huts
percentage wise
are used less frequently than are other buildings
(Frame structures). However the quonset huts
(88.2%)
comprised a much higher percent of the total #
of buildings in areas A+B than they did in
the South Hanger area (55.4%). Therefore the majority
of nests were in quonset huts of necessity. The
percent of quonsets with new nests + with new/old
nests is lower in A+B than it was in the South
Hanger area, but the same percentages for frame
buildings is nearly the same in both areas.
When however the percentages are figured on the basis