Wake Island, 1965, 1968

Related Titles

Contained In: National Museum of Natural History, Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, records, circa 1961-1973, with data from 1923

Series: SIA RU000245

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Schreiber, Ralph W.
Kleen, Vernon M.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1965, 1968

Notes

This record refers to 3 field books created during work with the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey in 1965 and 1968. Envelope 1 contains a field book by an unknown author that includes a brief list of numbers (34-68) and notations indicating chick age and sex. Envelope 2 contains a field book by Ralph W. Schreiber that includes a list of dead Sooty terns; bird counts; population calculations and estimates; banding data (listing band numbers 587-84435 to 993-01849; observations of bird behaviors; and a hand-drawn map of bird colonies. Envelope 3 contains a field book by Vernon M. Kleen that includes hand-drawn maps of bird colonies with counts; and banding and returns data (listing band numbers 743-30069 to 993-01847).

Subjects

Birds--Counting , Field notes , Maps , Ornithology , Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program , United States Minor Outlying Islands , Wake Island

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.156032