Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (?) 
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A flock of about 70 birds on Laysan were believed to be of this 
species* The flock usually remained fairly compact and was seen flying 
about the lagoon on several occasions* The birds were extremely wary* 
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Bristle-thighed Curlew 
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A group of about 17 birds was observed along the beach on Lisianski* 
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Other groups of a few individuals and singles were seen along the sandy 
beach areas. Only a few birds were noted on Laysan. These were scattered 
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along the South and West beaches. 
Sooty Tern 
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This was by far the most abundant bird on either island* The colony 
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on Lisianski was largely confined to the center of the island in the bunch 
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grass area. , Immatures formed a sizeable percentage of the flying population* 
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Chicks were quite abundant; the majority of them fully feathered. A few 
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birds were still incubating eggs* 
On Laysan the birds were distributed around the island between the 
lagoon and the Scaevola fringe wherever openings permitted segments of the 
colony to nest* Laysan had few chicks compared to Lisianski and the colony 
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was segmented into portions containing chicks of various age groups. Very 
few fully-feathered chicks were about and many portions of the colony had 
neither eggs nor chicks* A small segment of the colony on the North side 
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were sitting on heavily incubated eggs* No immatures were seen in the large 
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flying population. About six orange-tagged birds were seen or captured 
and released. 
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