Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska — John Shaqi
Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern AlaskaBee, James W.
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Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska
Bee, James W.
Birds -- Alaska
On July 13, 1952, at Porcupine Lake, we flushed a female from a damp
meadow of grasses and sedges at the west end of the lake. She
pretended to have a crippled wing. Seventy-five feet from this bird an
abandoned nest and fragments of egg shells rested on top of a mound
six inches from water and 10 feet from the west end of the lake. Two
dwarf willows on top of the mound partly concealed the nest. Two days
later (July 15), juveniles were caught in a line of traps set in this
marsh. Four tree sparrows, one savannah sparrow and three species of
small mammals also were taken from this marsh. At this time of year
(July 15) all the terrain was free of snow and ice except that two
patches of snow, one 8 x 12 feet and another 6 x 6 feet remained on
the protected south shore of the lake and a few ice slivers remained
in the deep crevasses on some mounds in the marsh. One bird was seen
on August 13, 1952, in wet low polygons between Lake Schrader and Lake
Peters.
+Actitis macularia+ (Linnaeus): Spotted sandpiper.--At the south end
of Lake Peters on August 15, 1952, after snow covered the valley, a
juvenal spotted sandpiper remained along the shore line nearer camp
than it had been for four previous days.
+Heteroscelus incanum+ (Gmelin): Wandering tattler.--On each of the
days July 3-11, 1952, a wandering tattler was flushed from dense high
willows along an 8-foot-deep creek channel that carried water from the
west end of Wahoo Lake into the East Fork of the Ivashak River. The
bird was at home in the willows and had considerable dexterity in
perching on limbs. Although the bird favored one section of the creek,
an exhaustive search for young, eggs or nest was fruitless. A loud
call was given by this bird when disturbed.
+Erolia melanotos+ (Vieillot): Pectoral sandpiper.--Specimens, 52:
Barrier Lake, NE Teshekpuk Lake, 153 deg.05'40", 70 deg.39'40", 8 ft., 33,
Nos. 30616-30636, 30638-30648, 30754 including 5 ad. males, 12 juv.
males, 1 ad. female and 15 juv. females, July 30, Aug. 1-3, 1951;
Topagaruk, 155 deg.48', 70 deg.34', 7, Nos. 30649-30655, including 3 ad. males
and 4 ad. females, July 6, 8, 9, 1951; Kaolak River, 159 deg.47'40",
70 deg.11'15", 30 ft., 6, Nos. 30610-30615 of ad. females, July 12, 14,
15, 18, 1951; Kaolak, 160 deg.14'51", 69 deg.56'00", 178 ft., 6, Nos.
30604-30609 including 1 juv. male and 5 ad. females, July 20-23, 1951.
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