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Ludvig, JP 
March 26, 1964 
Alter a call to DC and noting that rain would again keep us off 
Mbhu Ifenu, I caught a flight for Kauai to work at IOlauea and to look 
for Ifewell's Shearwaters. Damn rain is really fouling up our offshore 
island work, and we are missing a good deal of important work because 
of it. .Also tht rest of the guys are getting nervous and a little tense 
at all of the waiting without being able to accomplish anything; the 
weather pattern looks bad enough that it seems silly to send more than 
one person to Kauai now: If it breaks and I find lots of work, I win 
send for them. 
Kilauea Lighthouse - 1400 
Counted 294 Adults, J subadults, and Iff immature Red-footed Boobies. 
There are more than 200 nests now and building of new ones continues. 
Many many wedgetail burrows and numbers of adults in their burrows dur- 
ing the day, a few on ground surface. Bala began about 1500. 
Kilauea Lighthouse ~ 1830 
At 1830 large numbers of wedgetails are flying about and many are 
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already on the ground. Began banding and found that active burrows 
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go all the way down to the spray line and extend, from the tip of the 
point all the way bad: through the Booby colony into the Casurlms. 
The leeward side and point have the heaviest concentrations of active 
burrows. The Island just off the point, Mahuaeae, also has large 
numbers of wedgetails on it. Many birds were landing at dusk. Con¬ 
sidering both Kilauea and Mokuaeae as one colony, I estimate that at 
least 4000 
tb +- 30 percent of wedgetails, have burrows here. 
