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[26 th September 1948] Capped DOTTEREL 
I then had a good look at the 
various islands just off shore which were 
covered with SILVER GULLS and were 
obviously where they were breeding. There 
were about fifteen of these islands and 
going on observations made later there 
were roughly 300 nests on each island. 
This makes 4,500 nests and a nesting 
success of roughly VA gives 7000 new 
gulls this year from this locality. 
I picked what I thought would 
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