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Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5278

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Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5278

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Table 11. Summary of Mew Gull nests and contents in Glacier Bay, Alaska, 2003–05.

[Areas of concern are shown with gray shading. Number of nests and contents: C, chick; E, egg; F, nests with predated eggs or dead chicks. Active unknown: Nests in which adults were observed sitting on nests but would not move or behaved in an unusually aggressive manner but the nest contents were not observed]

Location Date Number of nests and contents
1E 2E 3E 4E 1C 2C 2E,1C F Territorial
pair
Active
unknown
Total
2003
Closed Boulder Island1 7-12 3 13 24 1 4 41
Closed Flapjack Island1 6-26 8 7 5 1 21
Islet at the entrance to Scidmore Bay 6-29 1 1
Islet at Tlingit Point 6-17 1 2 4 1 7
Riggs to Muir 6-22 1 1 1 3 1 7
Sealers Island1 6-15 1 1
Sturgess Island1 6-12 1 1 2
2004
Islet at Tlingit Point1 6-01 1 2 3
Johns Hopkins Jaw Point 7-16 3 3
Riggs to Muir 5-29 3 7 10 3 12 7
Sturgess Island1 6-16 2 2
Tidal inlet to Tlingit Point1 6-10 1 1
2005
Closed Spider Island Complex1 6-26 1 1
Closed Geikie Rock1 6-12 8 7 33 48
closed Lone Island1 6-12 21 28 66 115
Closed South Marble Island1 6-10 43 37 120 1 1 4 206
North Marble Island1 6-10 1 1
Riggs to Muir 5-28 4 1 3 9
Sturgess Island1 6-23 1 1

1Historical native egg-collection area.

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