The Birds Of Yakutat Alaska

Author : T. M. Shortt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266830337
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Summer Birds of Yakutat Bay, Alaska (Classic Reprint) written by T. M. Shortt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Summer Birds of Yakutat Bay, Alaska That the region is one from which a list of birds is desirable may be evinced from the following remark by Grinnell (1910) in a comparison of the faunal areas of southeastern Alaska: Too little work has been done in the Yakutat bay district to warrant a discussion of its relation ships. Though this was written in 1910, the statement was equally applicable in 1936 when our expedition sailed. The fauna of the more southerly parts Of the region, from Situk lake southward, proved to be predominantly Hudsonian in character with the following land birds strongly in evidence, - belted kingfisher, rufous hummingbird, Steller's jay, raven, crow, pine grosbeak, Lincoln's sparrow, fox sparrow and orange-crowned warbler. For the most part this region is heavily timbered but where prairie-like flats occur, such as at the mouth of the Situk river, a number of tundra species were found breeding. Examples include the Arctic tern, parasitic jaeger, northern phalarope, semipalmated plover and least sandpiper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.