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- Depositor
- Karen Dykes
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-12-08
- Date Modified
- 2021-12-08
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- passed on August 08, 2024 at 14:06
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Filename: 5652_pp_007.tif
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- when coming in the birds often land
very hard + it appears to me that they do
not see very well. Several ran
along side my legs or pushed under
the edge of my jacket to get from
the landing place to the burrows. There
was not very much noise, almost none
outside the burrows but the adult birds
greeted each other with a peculiar low
pitched grunting moo. Something like
a cow [word crossed out] bull calling in the distance. This
noise + the mewing squeak of the
young were heard frequently all
through the night.
The colony occupies the immediate
shore + back from it some 50 feet
where the rocks rise some 4 to 8 ft [feet]
sharply above tide line. Here salal
+ alders form a dense ground cover
+ around + under there the auklets
have dug their burrows - Tree roots
+ stumps provide favored sites. + all
such are honeycombed. Landing sites
are plastered with dung + there is
frequently dung at the burrow
entrances. There are no egg shells
either in the burrows or around
the colony.
We dug out 5 burrows during daylight
+ took downy young + fledglings from 4,
a single chick to each nest. The other
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