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4.9 Nov. (cont) Blue-faced Booby and Lay sans , perhaps 
even Browns, will be crowdco. ou o \jy the \ ci ■ -_« 
Areas newly overrun this year that were used by Laysans 
year are nol used — tne brush is uoo tnicx ioi oho 
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20 Nov. Rats all AM - the last of the rats for_ the 
month. In the afternoon Bob and i went after laysan 
ecoveries. We got some 130 recoveries and banded 
new birds. Also, we found 2 laysan eggsin the SAD, 
I forgot that last night we banded 19 Wedge- tails, 
2b Bonin Is. Petrels, and a new Boob y_-__new jto_the 
and painted Blue 1. 
Sat. 
colony - (ban ded — „ , 
I have taken a good number of notes on n-Lue-iaaea 
Booby behavior - there is a good deal. of agonistic 
behavior in the colony, as well as pair maintenance 
ceremonies such as mutual preening or just standung 
closely together. 
21 Nov. I have the early morning activity count - we 
load a great deal of rain. Blue-faced Boobies seem to 
leave the colony singly, and go directly to the area' 
in which they will feed. Several examples will illustrate 
this point - 
0755 - 2 SAF birds fly over NAF, to lagoon, up 
beach and out aong north point, angling over tne reef 
gradua lly • 
08 bb - R 6 flies from NAF directly out over the lagooon 
0923 - NAF bird flies directly to Lagoon beach, moves 
south along beach out of sight. 
0926 - R9 from NAF, flies to lagoon beach and N. 
along Scaevola a out along N. pt., then heads straight 
toward reef and out to sea. 
; 0931, 0935 birds leave NAF, turn south along lagoon 
beach 
0944 - Rll and other bird leave NAF, fly to lagoon 
and join up, then Rll goes north in normal manner, other 
bird heads south* 
This is repeated several times — at seems thao one 
birds go directly to thear fishing area* 1.0 is moeres^i 
ing that the birds head 1 st the lagoon, westerly, when 
they fly to N*pt* and beyond, which is east 01 the colo^iy* 
They were flying into the wind to get to ohe lagoon© 
