APPENDIX - TABLE 9. BIRDS, MAMMALS AND FISHES 
OBSERVED AT ST. MATTHEW IS. 
1957 
BIRDS 
Date First Total Number 
Observed Species Seen 7/15 - 8/9 
7/15 McKay's snowbunting 115 (nesting) 
7/15 _ Rosy finch 27 (nesting?) 
7/15 Kittiwake 1,200 (nesting) 
7/16 Bairds cormorant 375 (nesting) 
7/16 Glaucous gull 70 
7/16 Tufted puffin 450 (nesting) 
7/16 California murre 1,300 (nesting) 
7/16 Pacific eider 220 (nesting) 
7/16 Ruddy turnstone 90 
7/16 Pigeon guillemot 4OO (nesting) 
7/16 Northern phalarope 35 
7/16 Red-backed sandpiper 350 (nesting) 
7/16 Alaska longspur 4S (nesting) 
7/17 Little brown crane 14 
7/17 Whistler swan 2 
7/19 Pintail duck 15 (nesting) 
7/17 Aleutian sandpiper 110 (nesting) 
7/18 Old squaw duck 4O (nesting) 
7/18 Redpoll 15 (nesting) 
7/18 Horned puffin 550 (nesting) 
7/21 Red-throated loon 12 (nesting?) 
7/26 Parasitic jaeger 2 
7/26 Paroquet auklet 350 (nesting) 
7/29 Wandering tattler . 5 
7/26 Pacific fulmar 100 (nesting) 
7/15 Black-footed albatross 2 (offshore) 
7/29 Least sandpiper ~ 5 
8/9 Harlequin duck — 20 
Frank Beals, FWS refuge manager, observed the following additional 
species while on the island during June 24 through August 15, 1944 
(Beals, 1944): 
‘ Red-breasted merganser common 
Long-tailed jaeger abundant 
Snowy owl abundant 
Least auklet rare 
Northern loon rare 
Golden plover rare 
Pelagic cormorant common 
The many jaegers and owls seen in 1944 were apparently attracted 
by the high population of voles that was present on the island at the 
time. 
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