Fairy Tern are relatively sparse. One was seen incubating an egg 
in a tree. It flow only reluctantly. 
Fair numbers of brown boobies are present and are breeding (primarily 
on the rocky cans ways .). Mast pa ir s have small to medium young although 
nests with eggs and very large young (really immature b with only tufts 
of down) were seen. 
It rains almost constantly which hampers my banding considerably. 
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My glasses fog up so badly I cannot see the birds at more 
than a few feet. Because of this I inadvertently stepped on several 
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Sooty Tern nestling but they were not injured. A surprising number of 
nestlings seen to suffer from wing deformities five to seven seen. 
Although this is certainly subjective it more seems injured than in 
other nestling groups I have banded. 
Geckos of at least two species are reasonably common and my be 
readily obtained frc® the Inside of windows of the many houses. The 
island also has a population of toads which May be most readily 
seen and captured in the rain on the airstrip. Rats also occur 
(one collected). 
Much land surface in the open is covered by a rather revolting 
algae? which looks rather like rotten brussel sprouts. 
Fish fauna is varied and abundant. Several triggerfish I had not 
seen before; puffers are very common, and so are two other sp. (black 
fin and compressed blue) which I do not know. 
