JOURNAL 
Marshall/ 1964 
Southeast Is., Pearl and Hermes 
Aug . 17 cont. . , 
of 15 tropic birds hovering over the island. Saw 15 Bns ue 1. - 
curlews, one Golden Plover. I rested until 2:30 then went 6 it " 
with Paul to get the Red tagged bird. I saw him and shot him. . 
Ken, Dick and Alan banded 300 Sooty Terns, Paul and I tried -first 
to band Hawaiian Noddies and Grey back Terns. We had no luck with 
these, so we tried to fill'd some of the Vedgetail, but couldnot 
find an of these either. This points up important fact, that is 
these birds that are so numerous in the evening were not on the 
island during the day. We started out at 9:00 to band Wedge- 
tails, banded 900 by 12:30. Then we went over to the Sooty' 
colony and finished off the 700 bands left from the afternoon. 
Finished these off in good stride by 3:00AM morning of the----— 
18 th. * 
Antnist 18 Ken, Dick, Alan and Al went after Booby and finished 
tff-theTIst of those bands. Paul and I worked very hard on 
<rettin<r Grey backs. We also banded one Turnstone and three ^ 
Bulwers petrels, and found two more Bulwers that were banded. 
After getting 50 birds on our multismallbird string, we switched 
over to Hawaiian Noddies, banding 76. _ 
Next we tried to get shorebirds, but it was getting light so we 
headed back to camp.. Slept for awhile, and missea^ the 8.0. 
radio check by 20 min. Got up grudgingly to help the boat in 
at 8:30. We got in the boat and headed for Bird Is. Landed there 
and found: 
3 Masked Booby 
3 Ruddy Turnstone 
1 Wandering Tattler 
1 Grey back tern 
From Bird Is. we could just see Sand Is. on the .horizon so we - 
headed that way, landed there, and saw: 
9 Masked Booby ' 
2 Turnstone 
100 Hawaiian Noddy 
20 Common Noddy 
Continued on to Grass Is. and saw the following, 
banded some, and also phoned ship which was just 
horizon (a miricle of modern cmmunications) to ask them to 
pick us up at Seal Is* On Grass were* 
5 Fairy terns 
250+ ; Great Frigates 
3000- Common Noddy 
3 Hawaiian Noddy 
3 Laysan Albatross Nestlings 
2 Sanderlings 
3 Ruddy Turnstone 
1 Tattler 
1 Imm. Red foot Booby ’• 
20 Sooty Tern 
8 Red-tailed Tropics 
18 Wedgetail-nests with eggs or chicks. 
From Grass we headed toward Seals Is., were we saw: 
of which we 
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