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Marshall/ 1964 Southeast Is., Pearl and Hermes 
August 16 - Up early to supervise the packing of the gear. 
Finished packing in early afternoon and loaded all the gear on 
deck. Ve inflated the rubber ^aft, and in spite of the worried 
looks from everyone, ve got all the eight men plus equipment into 
the raft without any trouble. The landing was no sweat after 
we had located the channel. Ve landed on the eastern tip of the 
ocean side, at about 6:00PM. From ship we could see large numbers 
of Sooty Terns flying over the SV side of the island; Doug'Whitman 
estimated that there were 5000+. Ve set up camp on the extreme 
eastern end of the island, which turned out to be a very good spot 
because it was far enough from the birds that out camp activities 
did overly excite them. 
A preliminary survey of the island yielded the following 
results: 
Laysan Albatross - Nestlings, less than 50 
Masked Booby - Nestlings and adults, about 20 
Red-footed Booby - Adults, Sub-adults and nestlings, about 20 
Brown Booby - Pairs in all stages of nesting, from having two 
eggs in the nest to having immatures and sub-adults. These birds 
were pretty well scattered over the island, but there was a large 
group of them in the centre of the island along the ocean side. 
Ve estimated 75 birds plus or minus 10. 
Greater Frigates - Roosting adults and many immatures plus 
a few nestlings. Perhaps 70 nesting birds. (The immatures and 
nestlings were still attended by the adults) 
Sooty Terns - Adults with nestlings, plus Sub-adults and 
adults roosting on the beach at night - approx. 20,000. * * 
Grey Back Tern - Adults nestlings and immatures, about 5000. 
Fairy Tern - Adults 3 
Vedgetail Shearwater - Adults with small chicks plus many 
roosting above ground at night. 
Christmas Shearwater - 6 adults, 2 in le burrow. Paul saw 
one with a -band but was unable to capture it. 
Common Noddy - Adults on eggs - 500, adults roosting - 500. 
Hawaiian Noddy - 5000 adults roosting in the tall grass 
and in the Scaevola bushes. 
Ruddy Turnstones - 50-100 s . 
Red-tailed Tropic-Bird - 5 or 6 nests, with eggs and nestlings. 
Golden Plover - One in flock of Turnstones. 
Seals, Hawaiian Monk - 20+ 
Turtles - One banded tag #147 
After making a radio check we all went down to the Vest 
end of the island to band terns. Ve banded 500 nestlings 
and 500 adults by 12:00, decided to knock off early on this our 
first night. In bed at 1:00AM. 
August 17 Up at 7:00 to make radio check at 8:00. Waited around 
for the boat to come in. Paul caught and banded a fairy term. .... j 
After boat was taken care of, Paul and Alan went out to band the 
39 Albatross Nestlings. Ken and I banded 62 Frigates young and 
Boobies, covering the island. Paul saw a red tagged Sooty tern 
but was unable to catch it. Dick spent morning with broom and 
tweezers in a futile attempt to rescue a Seal skeleton. Paul 
went out and banded 7 Tropics, found one return while the rest 
of us ate lunch of the good food supplied fresh to us by the / 
ship. Ve saw two Hawaiian Noddies on eggs in the long grass / 
in the centre of the island. At one time 1 counted a max. of / 
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