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Sooty Terns Cont. 
March 2 - Three eggs in plot 1. Thirty in plot 4. Humber still 
increasing by day in area along road to dump. Very few more birds seem 
to come in to the north point at night. 
3 and 8 
March 3 - Plot 1 
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6 
8 
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3 
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Area B - 19 
Birds have moved across road to dump, now occupying area between 
it and shore. Very few eggs, so far. 
Pushing across slope from both sides; eggs up to nests 24 and 8. 
March. 5 - Birds spreading downward and outward on slope leading to 
penninsula. Those on penninsula may be moving inward some more. Patch 
°f 8esuvium between plots 5 and 6 occupied during the morning, no eggs. 
Birds solid across Isope with Brown Boobies. 
First eggs in plots 5 and 6. The other plots are remaining fairly 
constant. Ho losses, 1-2 additions. One egg each in 5 and 6 by 
1100; i and 2, respectively, by 7 p.m. Birds still occupying entire 
March ;6 - Banded 600 on north penninsula on eggs. Many new eggs 
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in all plots. Birds solid on road to dump. 
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March 7 - Many eggs right in road to dump, also many across it. 
Birds sitting and beginning to lay on open area where dump was 
situated. Very rapid and sudden movement into this area. 
Many birds also sitting on Tribulus on Hearth side of transmitter 
building. Few eggs so far. 300 baned in area of pic s 1 and 2. 
