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October 25 — Poooia Island 
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Fleet, King and Myself waded to Popoia from Ala la point, *-*1200 • 
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Island is approximately 625 feet by 575 feet. Maximum elevation 
equals 10 feet (#st . ) . Island is eroded volcanic rock nearly covered 
by vegetation. Many natural cavities in -the rock are utilized as burrows . 
Thick mats of Portulaca sp. covered about 2/5 of the island. Other 
, ma ; ln vegetation included unidentified shrubs of two types, one high 
and one low. No Scsevola was found. 
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..This was the most heavily populated island visited so far. Seventy 
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Wed/e-tail nestlings we^ found in the 2/5 of the island which was investigate! 
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There are probably about fifty to seventy more present. 
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plovers (10 est . ) , turnstone (20 to 50) and tattlers (6). 
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H As we, were leaving ihe island around 6 p.m. we noticed she arwaters 
returning for the first time. 
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October 26 — Mt. Kaala, Oahu 
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Mike Ord > president of llama II Audubon Society^ picked up Warren 
King and rm around 900 a*m* We attested to drive up to the puamoho 
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trail but were turned back because of Army maneuvers in the area (live 
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fire exercises). Mika commented that the military seem Invariably to , 
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choose to overrun areas where the Drepanids seem to be holdirg their own. 
As a result, we went about 5000 feet up Mt. Kaala, 2000 feet walking- 
Sven though this was on a new road built for a tracking station, it was 
very tiring. We managed to see several birds, though none w d«e very 
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abundant, probably due to the recent activity in building the road. 
