Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, AlaskaCooper Ornithological Club of California, 1900 - 80 páginas |
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abundant alascensis Alaskan alder August Auklet Barn Swallows birds call-note canadensis Cape Blossom Cape Lowenstern Chamisso Island Chickadee coastwise common Grinnell common McLenegan common Townsend curlew edge eskimo fairly common feathers feet female flight flocks flying following spring fresh eggs Gmel grass ground color Grouse gulls Gyrfalcon Hawk heard Hotham Inlet hummock inches Jade Mountains jaegers July June juveniles Kotzebue Sound Kotzebue Sound Nelson Kotzebue Sound region Kowak delta Kowak River Kowak Valley lagopus lake Larus Linn Loon male miles moult native name nearly nest Noatak River noted numerous observed pair Phalaropes plumage pond Puffin Red Phalarope red polls redpolls Ridgw Rock Ptarmigan Sandpiper Scoter secured seen September Shores of Kotzebue Short-eared Owl shot snow song Sparrow species specimens spots spruce Spruce Grouse summer thickets throughout the Kotzebue tree Tringa tundra upper Kowak uttered Varied Thrush Warbler Willow Ptarmigan Wilson's Snipe winter camp yards young
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Página 4 - Dr. Joseph Grinnell (1900) visited this colony and made the following report: On July 9, 1899, I spent the afternoon and night on Chamisso Island. On this island and a smaller detached one bearing northwest from it, the horned puffins were breeding in immense numbers. Their nest burrows were dug in the earth on top of the Islands, principally on the verge of the bluffs. These burrows were from 1 to 3 feet in length, with an enlarged nest cavity at the end The eggs generally lay on the bare ground,...
Página 17 - Its food consisted largely of berries and grass, while a few insects and, I have reason to believe, mice, also entered into its diet. We found the cranes usually fat, and they proved very fine eating, in fact we esteemed crane above every other game except ptarmigan.
Página 4 - ... it and the earth. The parent bird was frequently found on the nest and would sometimes offer courageous resistance to being dragged forth, inflicting severe nips with Its powerful mandibles. Where there were rock slides on the side of the island, natural crevices and holes among the fallen bowlders were taken advantage of for nesting sites. In such places eggs were to be found from the surf to the top of the island, and by crawling amongst the bowlders many eggs were discovered, but often In...
Página 9 - ... followed me a long ways, dashing down at me at intervals as before described. I found several more nests by carefully examining the bushy topped spruces around lakes, but none contained eggs. Probably the jaegers which I saw in the vicinity were responsible for this. One of the nests was only about 7 feet above the water on a leaning spruce at the edge of a pond. The rest of the nests were from 10 to 20 feet above the ground iu spruces growing nearest the water's edge.
Página 2 - ... anchored among standing grass in about 2 feet of water. It was 20 feet from the shore on one side and about the same distance from the edge of the ice, which still existed in a large floe in the center of the lake. The top of this raft of dead grass presented a saucer-shaped depression, which was 2 inches above the surface of the surrounding water. The eggs lay wholly uncovered and could be plainly seen from shore. Mr. PM Silloway (1902) found a small colony of...
Página 65 - List of the midsummer birds of the Kowak River, northern Alaska. Auk, 4:11-13.
Página 18 - Vandyke brown, vinaceous, and lavender. These spottings are rather more numerous at the large end of the eggs, but not so pronouncedly so as to form a wreath. The longitudinal tendency of the markings easily reminds one of the pattern of coloration on the eggs of Myiarchus.
Página 18 - They lay about 6 inches apart on the level ground of the tundra near a willow bush. For a diameter of 2 feet the ground was sprinkled with finely broken twigs; otherwise there was nothing to mark the spot as a nest. George G. Cantwell sent me a photograph and some notes on a nest he found on Kalgin Island, Cook Inlet, Alaska, on June 10, 1913. The nesting site was a wild grass marsh of several miles extent, completely surrounded by small spruces, probably a partly dried up lake in the center of the...
Página 38 - ... nest, flew off about thirty yards, turned and made for my head like a shot. It planted itself with its full weight on to my skull, drawing blood from three claw-marks in my scalp. My hat was torn off and thrown twelve feet. All this the owl did with scarcely a stop in its headlong swoop. When as far on the other side the courageous bird made another dash and then another, before I had collected enough wits to get in a shot. The female which was evidently the bird I had first discovered on look-out...