Field notes, v1379
Page 207
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
86 Journal R.E. Johnson 1968 June 13 Amclutka Island, Alaska (cont.) These were judged to be Eider nests by the dark gray down that [illegible] characteristically lines the nest. For nests with eggs were found: 4 egg nests - 1 5 egg nests - 2 6 egg nests - 1 Glaucons-winged Gull nests were common: Nests with 1 egg 7 2 eggs 1 3 eggs 7 1 young 1 2 young 1 3 young 1 1 egg + 1 young 1 2 eggs + 1 young 1 1 egg out of nest 1 recently occupied nests (now empty) 7 28 A Tufted Puffin was seen in a burrow facing Kiribf Pt. and there were other burrows of similar size in the vicinity. A flashlight would be needed to determine the contents of these burrows. They are located along the top of the island as holes [horizontal] back under banks crested with Elymus or [illegible] holes through the Elymus into the dirt on which it grows. There were perhaps 150 tufted Puffins either in flight or floating in a large raft