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Sooty Tern* ‘A few were observed in flight on 14 
By 14 October their nesting season was about over* as the great 
A flight should be made next June to 
majority had already left Midway 
determine their status at Pearl and Hermes* 
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A small flock flushed from Seal Island 
as we made a low pass 0 Others could have been present* as they are almost 
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A few “were seen over 
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northeast reef* and over the south sandspits. Does this species find 
suitable nesting habitat here* or are they transients? 
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All of the Fairy Terns were seen on* and 
f lying near* the northeast reef* where they probably nest* 
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Two species* Sooty Storm Petrel and Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
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have been reported as breeding at Pearl and Hermes* but if present this 
year they could not have been observed from the air* Perhaps the most 
conspicuously absent member of the reef’s avifauna is the Red-tailed 
Tropicbird* evidently a result of lack of dense Scaevola thickets for 
nesting# 
In addition to the species listed below* while flying over the large 
protruding rocks at the northeast end of the reef* I observed* flying 
near a group 
of fa 
gray in the 
bright 
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conditions* 
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known 
sunlight. Identification was impossible under the 
think they may have been Blue-gray Noddies ( Procelsterna 
known to breed on Kaula * Nihoa* Meeker* and La Perouse Rock; 
this deserves further investigation 
(Signed) 
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