Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. Over 90% of the world's Parakeet Auklets occur in the Bering Sea region. Most nest in small, scattered groups or as solitary pairs, but some 150,000 birds nest on St. George Island in the...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. This auklet is largely confined to the Bering Sea region, where it typically nests in huge colonies on islands near cold, saline water currents. Colonies of 250,000 or more of the species...
Title taken from the back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: A man is seen on the waterfront amidst large rocks holding a net with a large pole and an auklet inside the net. Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Description: wood; mountain goat wool; painted Old Num: acc. 424a Descriptive Narrative: Wooden grease dish in the form of a floating bird ( crested auklet ?, puffin ?) with the cavity in the back; wings folded against the sides; head...