general location withi ^^ he t his°was t a r good°day, between 
As the weather was bad, n insid | and c atch up on 
checks to the Boobies, dulQS ( onQ R 0 d-footed Booby- 
paper work - re< r oV ®*^ ^63 was found dead on Eastern, 
Wed on Kure in hov. 19^ sent the handover 
Midway on Jan. 4, 9 3 d the blood that we uook 
bn the last plane} transcribed some Booby 
from sick Laysans yesterday, tran 
iata. y t s oent an hour observing 
X In the 6 nf'^mo st & interest still is the conflict be- 
pehavior . Of most in 0 4 still triumphs, but 
thf i a s-y W Sll m? twigs with R 2 ani approach 
his Sky-calling. the movie until about 
Transcribed more data aiuer 
midnight. 
12 Jan. In the morningjne ^^dway were 
so did more *°™rds on 7 more Laysans - two 
finished. We di them, blood from 6 more 
to go and we are finished w^ ^ ^ bird# we 
Laysans - I cou ? 4 n , For t he 48 blood samples we have, 
released him unbled. ,, 4 p Er cent mortality, 
only 2 birds died acCld ®£f^e afternoon, and 
We got 76 Laysan recoveries Bonin banding by 
will check the same area tom after dinner, and wander 
Dennis after dark, I ° pnun tin°- 36 Blue-faced Boobies 
through the SAF at dusk, counting 3° ^ 
there. . +h Toysan nests, I saw a SAF 
At 1130 when Recking the Lay ^ _ the first time 
Blue-faced Booby n NAF birds has been seen. 
such a mingling of SAF extremel y little such mixing. 
At any rate, there gooney in SAF this evening. 
There was one real sick go 
couS not fly and could barely walk. 
13 Jan In the morning we do lays™ ^to^rea 2, 
slmer area visited yesterday ~ We saw 57 walkers, 
fuel tanks, along M. edge ^ yesterday, 41 being new 
of which only 16 were handled ye ^ & ?2 per 
birds to get -^^fS^ans in the area in 
cent turn over in waiKing t+j 
less than 24 hours. 
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