TABLE 1 Population estimates of the birds on Howland and Baker Islands 
23 - 25 1 
November 1965* 
Species 
Adult * Young 
Nests With Eggs 
Total 
Howland 
Island 
Blue-faced Booby 
1000 
4 
8 
1004 
Brown Booby 
50 
2 
15 
52 
Red-footed Booby 
150 
7 
0 
157 
Great Frigatebird 
50 
0 
0 
50 
Lesser Frigatebird 
5 
3 
0 
8 
Golden Plover 
36 
0 
0 
36 
Bristle-thighed Curlew 
1 
0 
0 
1 
Sooty Tern ** 
200 
0 
0 
200 
Baker 
Island 
Blue-faced Booby 
4 
1 
0 
5 
Brown Booby 
1 irk 
0 
0 
1 
Golden Plover 
126 
0 
: 0 
126 
Ruddy Turnstone 
258 
0 
0 
258 
Wandering Tattler 
59 
0 
0 
59 
Erolia sp. 
6 
0 
0 
6 
Bristle-thighed Curlew 
1 
0 
0 
1 
Sooty Tern 
11 ** 
0 
0 
11 
Common Noddy Tern 
300 
0 
49 
300 
Hawaiian Noddy Tern 
9 
0 
0 
9 
* includes subadults and flying immatures 
** only recorded as flying over the island 
