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21 July 1946 BaffinBay,._2 0 mi. off Cape York, Greenland. 
The numbers of dovekies x/hich we saw today was astounding. 
By actual count I saw 12,600, mostly in six hoars between 
09 00 and 1600 . T h ere must have been throe or four t ines _ 
more than that conservative estimate. Between 0900 and 
1600 they were -always - in - sight, sometimes in large 
5craggly flocks on.the wa ter, somet i mes in tight compa ct_ 
flights in the air. At times the whole sea was covered t 
like a — mtchw6Tk — quilt as far as the eye could reach, with 
flocka of .dovekies._fm the water tlie flocks x^ern usually _ 
long and strungoul^ usually in confirmation with the swells. 
Hfte n-there were-as_mmmy_m3rmuoretJjnn a. hundred and fifty 
birds in single flocks of this sort. More compact flocks i&ifclht! 
contained many less individuals. BsuaTTy“not more than 25 
or - 50-*—Sorue^locks^--noiwtbley-ih-e -scraggiy--enes,-ausi.u,d-ly--- 
took to the air well in advance of the ship. A large 
proportion of”the small compact - flocks’ in the patjf of the 
shin made their escape by diving, -usually to surface only 0 Aft 
after the ship, had passed, but sometimes popping up in the 
wake at the beam,' only to d\ick under immediately again,, 
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