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by residents at Nyac suggest that some birds may winter there (J. Bloom- 

 quist, and C. Clark, Jr., personal communication). 



Common redpoll (Carduelis flammed). Asr, Ufm (J May-7 Novem- 

 ber). Specimens: WFB869, RMS 1962/36/5 3, BMNH/83sk/DNWl, 

 BMNH/83sk/DNW07, RMS1974/119/15, RMS 1974/11 9/22, 

 RMS1974/1 19/23, RMS 1974/ 11 9/01, and RMS 1974/ 119/16. 



Common redpolls nested inland and along coastal portions of the 

 study area and were along the coast in spring and fall. A few common 

 redpoUs were at Cape Peirce in spring 1973 (two on 7 May, and seven 

 on 14 May). Birds nested at the Salmon and Tuluksak rivers and Good- 

 news and Chagvan bays, possibly nested at the Kisaralik River, and were 

 "suspected" to nest at Summit, Crooked, High, and Hagemeister islands 

 (P. D. Ameson and D. B. McDonald, personal communication). Redpolls 

 were common near Nyac on 1 5 July 1980 (Mindell 1983), common along 

 the Kisaralik River in 1982 (Mindell 1983), 1985 (1-15 birds per day on 

 7 days during 10-27 August; Brown et al., unpublished), and 1987 

 (16-19 June; B.J. McCaffery, personal communication), and seen at the 

 Kwethluk River (1 to >15 birds per day on 10-27 July 1985; M. Brown 

 et al., unpublished), the Eek River (R. Baxter, unpublished; 1 to >15 

 birds per day on 11 days during 17-29 June 1985 [M. Brown et al., 

 unpublished]), Kagati Lake (M.J. Fry, unpublished), the Kanektok River 

 (White and Boyce 1978), the Togiak River, and Round Island. At Round 

 Island, a dead bird was found on 12 June 1972 (E. H. Miller, unpublished) 

 and a single bird on 27 June 1976 (R. Macintosh, unpublished). We 

 observed an extremely red C.flammea at Cape Peirce on 23 June 1970. 

 Redpolls were common on Crooked Island in June-July 1977 (P. D. 

 Ameson and D. B. McDonald, personal communication). 



Pairs of common redpolls used low to tall shrub habitats and 

 shrubby edges of forests. Some birds moved to low shrub thicket and 

 dwarf shrub mat habitats to 1,350 m asl by late July. At the Tuluksak 

 River, we found 10 pairs per square kilometer and about twice as many 

 unpaired birds in both disturbed and undisturbed riparian habitats in 

 1983. Redpolls are not accurately estimated by the breeding bird census 

 technique we used (Erskine 1977). In fall, birds fed in valley floors, both 

 in shrub habitats and shrubby edges of forests. At the Tuluksak River, 

 some birds were building nests on 8 June 1962, one bird was incubating 

 on 6 June 1983, scolding adults were common after 8 June 1974, and 

 young were common after 25 June 1962 and 28 June 1978. Flocks were 

 found on 5-15 July in all years. 



