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l Feb. Activity study all day, radar tower. Check the 
Laysans. There is very little action m the rooo . 
5 Fdb. We worked on some Black-feet in the afternoon 
doing six birds - blood samples, parasites, KcBee 
Tt still takes about 15 minutes per bird. 
Band Bonin's this evening, band 16 new to the area, 
L0 returns, and 1 egg found on the ground. 
Feb. Shore-bird and seal census. The find of the . 
ay was a White -tailed Tropicbird ctuising over 
hoach I also found, after weasel told me, a 
ilaucus Gull, dead and rotted partially onthe the beaon. 
plucked it and it will make a skeleton. FN 
fine Fairy Tern we had, that got away yesterday I xound 
dead inthe Scaevola, in usable condition, we also 
[found a Golden Plover banded only a week or so “b 0 * 
! 7 more Laysans were found dead - all rats, and t 
Were in bad shape - one had to be < ies troyed In two cases 
both an adult bird andits chick had been eaten. The 
Spun down blood from yesterdays Black-feet Uo3 -&)• 
About 50-60 per cent of the Laysan Nests have chicKS. 
7 Feb. In the morning we went about in the area surround- 
in- the central roost and got returns on the laysans - 
we°did about 150 birds. Birds onthe nest are oeing paino- 
ed with green stripe acioss the breast, those xxth 
walkers are being painted with a small green spot on the 
breast. Similar marks are biimg done in tne J-F, - -" - 
the P aint used there is orange Dennis £-**«»*«* 
and did more Laysans - in the oaF, after uarK. 
some Bonins, but tfeey were extromelly scarce - I fobnd a 
only 17 birds i n all of S22, SAF, and behind tne fael 
talcs. Only 9 needed bands. Time was 1000-1100.^ 
Did Blue-faced Booby behavior and got, some 
interactions with Kl9-20-23-and 03. There is a ae.inat 
aversion of the heqd in all interactions between p^rrs, 
while antagonistic interactions make more use ox tne 
bill- directed at the opponent. . , 
Ex. A Hd-tu w . by a male around his mate, almost 
without exception, features a bowxug of t e _^ ea ^ 
the side of the breast away from the mate. T 
B . on the side away fromthe female, and then placed m 
