SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20560 
Adak 9 Alaska 
24 September 1964 
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By now you should have our first petrel, a 
fork 
that 
•tail that blew into Cold 
I talked Refuge Mgr* Bob Jones out of. Since Max won the 
Bay last week 
toss for the cruise off Kamtchatca on the "Kelas 1 *, he should be able to collect 
a lot more Procellarids for the project. Fe flew here from Cold Bay day before 
yesterday and Max continued on to Attu immediately to join the Kelas there. 
I f m staying in a BOQ here at the Naval Station (only Navy & CG on this island), 
and after tests & questions to get a new Gov’t. Drivers License (old one expired) 
I got myself a Navy pickup truck with which I visit the various lagoons daily. 
The weather turned terrible the first night. Heavy rains and winds to 70 knots 
In spite of it I spotted 4 turnstones at Clam Lagoon (thanks to a good windshield 
wiper) 9 but no red backs. The stoyy has been the same at Nikolski, Dutch Harbor, 
ked. Next Tuesday, if 
or 
and Cold Bay - small numbers of turnstones seen, none marked. Next Tuesday, 
my special clearance comes through. I’ll fly to Amchitka for a week. A new ABC 
I have clearance for Shemya 
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project there makes that island hard to reach 
and Attu and will visit them to look for turnstones anyway 
The 5-year's supply of blank franked and McBee cards all arrived here and 
this morning Eeeve Aleutian Airlines even produced my air freight only 2 days 
late. 
Great numbers of black brant and Canada and Emperor geese are migrating 
hrough Cold Bay (izembek) presently and there are quite a few molting flight- 
Steller's eiders there that Jones hopes to band. 
Birds presently to be seen here on Adak include the following: 
1/ 
less 
Pelagic cormorant (offshore) 
Mallard 
Pintail 
Greater scaup 
Old-squaw 
Harlequin 
Common eider 
Red-breasted merganser 
(few) 
(coupL 
( 25 /) 
( 3 ?) 
( 50 /) 
( 50 - 75 ) 
(7) 
11. Peregrine falcon 
12. Rock ptarmigan 
1 3 . Ruddy turns tone 
14. Rock sandpiper 
Ip. Pectoral sandpiper 
16. Glaucous-winged gull 
17 . Pigeon guillemot 
Common raven 
(2 
pairs 
Bald eagle 
Gyrfalcon 
C -fe 1 
(0 3 -n 
(over 50 ? most imm 
(l or 2) 
/ Oi 3 f 2. f fe//' 
( ^ 2* 
)19. 
20 . 
21 . 
(fresl: 
( 4 seen) 
(sparce) 
(one seen) 
(many in dump) 
(offshore) 
(10-20 seen) 
(few) 
een) 
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c. 
Water piper 
Aleutian gray-crowned rosy finch ]50 / 
Giant song sparrow (few) 
Lapland longspur (couple stragglers) 
Snow bunting 
Oh 
yes, 
the albatross culmen I sent you will probably prove to be tha 
a, nearly (if not quite) extinct species, the short—tailed ( .Piomedea aj..oarms }. 
If so, as far as I can tell from the few references I have available 
it may be a first record for the i&land of Umnak. 
Thank you all for the birthday card which arrived today, you’ll 
month or 
us come home in 
o we can remember what you all look like 
10 me nere, 
have to let 
(Don’t ask 
our excuse when we ask to leave again the next day!) 
by ^ ^ MX-. C-Wk J&.y *• Uh V nHWY 
