Atnerman, Kenneth 
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Boobies- -counted sixty- seventy- five in daytime. Most on offshore 
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markers. Only five adults on land, and one nestling, two immatures. 
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Estimate two-hundred to three hundred at night, many immatures. One 
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i' Red-footed Boobystill on egg. 
Noddies — 1000 + 3 p.m. , most in puncture vine. Perhaps two to 
three times this at night, surplus on wires. Many chicks, some eggs. 
Frigates — thirteen nestlings. F-8 and F-1T nearby ready to fly. 
Estimate 200 3 p.m. One hundred on sand spit by old deck, fifty on 
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rest of Band, reBt flying, four hundred (estimate) at night — antenna 
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Troplchirds — one to two fly over once or twice aday. 
Fiary Terns-- one to five fly over several times a day. 
Shearwaters — 1^00 (estimate). Have found no eggs — all chicks seem 
to have hatched before I arrived . Still hope to find some to -start 
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series. 
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Shorebirds — Twenty- two to thirty Turnstone, five to eight Golden 
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Plover, one to two tattlers. Have seen no sign of banded plover— has 
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either left or died; probably latter since it was very weak when I 
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removed it from net. 
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September 9 — Three hundred sooties. Estreraely hard to catch in daytime- 
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iiOO/2 hours +. Even at night, w/o moon, get two to three of a Ifock 
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; and then have to move. 
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j September 1 0- -Three hundred sooties, two frigates. 
