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cs Kure's famous monkey. I noted that two of my oooby study 
'"S awie s x^u'i ^ J , / „ t checked them m 7 aays ;. 
nests have been abandoned v - ‘ pattern. During much 
the Frigates have an interestina acei^.y P t . „„ 
of the day there are ana o^va^bat „ sh . uden boobys 
in A he aS. r wSSi^ The* seem to be most successful in robbing 
h£sked‘and totnre 2ed-foots: Adult Red-foots I nave yet 
to see pillaged .or tneir f * f harraenim with this new work 
^\4rSi f b^\r^ s; 
nd to band in each plo^ once *' iO * 0,> 
10-22-63 , v d n the rat study area, and there 
^^inues^o^e SSTaSouf ^X2s r Snd a 2u* 
SmSs 5th which he is woSkang. X have been examining the 
skeletons of all birds found in the antenna fields, 
^Sch arflntact with both wings usually have a break 
^so^Sere <n one of the wings, indicating collisions a.h 
somewhere -non four birds each week on 
guy wares. I believe iias x. ; estimate may be low. Thus 
fa- in our work we have found the following numbers ofbir 
Silb under the antenna. All had broken or sheared off kings. 
I have also seen skeletons of 
Frigates, both albatross, anu. 
turnstones under the tower, and 
found several noddy skeletons on 
the beach which could.hsve broken 
their wings in collisions with 
the otermost guys. 
Masked Booby 3 
Brown Booby *J- 
Red-footed Booby 1 
Wedgetailed Snear.l 
Eonin Id. Petrel 2 
C-olden Plover 2 
Rvt.Tropicbird 
Total 15 
Ibelieve that such collisions are a major cause' 
in most if the species which frequent xsiand in ^ 
C sfSLSSSftfi 5Lr°r =£4 Of 
gay “Sallowing observations on bird -tivity^Tropicbir^ 
this morning were nos seen ■ At j no ted many 
vtoe then aloft between 0800 and 6945. * ^ ^ and 
adults apparently returning irom feeoin 0 i 
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