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Oct. 2f> - Rrikub Atoll. Marshall Islands 
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Aradoi airik Isla nd : Fairy Terns were observed 
on eo’^vS on this island. On a rocky part of the 
beach near the cover of the forest were a few 
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nests of Black-naped Tern. Two nests with eggs 
were found after a somewhat difficult search and 
two chicks were collected. The preferred nest 
site of this species (if that egg on Taka happens 
to belong to this species) appears to be coarse 
rocky rubble much rougher in nature than the 
nesting sites of most terns with which ,.1-r am 
acquainted. 
Brown Boobies were nesting in numbers under 
the overhanging trees-and down to the rocky shores 
of the island. One nest was peculiar in that 
it was completely composed of small sticks of 
driftwood. Both young and eggs were present 
but the young were generally young young. I saw 
no birds which I could consider even half way 
grown, Huber estimated 40 nests, and Binion 
estimated 50-75 nests 
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merson notes that the 
nests were mostlv with egms, (rerha/ns 1/2) and 
chicks (1/4) and rrelavin g. 
Population Estimates for Guro island 
Snecies PBC 
B-.T. Curlew 3 
W nderinn' Tattler 3 
Golden Plover 4 
Pudd^ Turnstone 5 
Fairy Tern 30-35 
Hawaiian Noddy 45-50 
Peef Heron 1 
Black-n^ped Tern ’ 2 
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4- 5 
30-35 
45-50 
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