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on the island. There are golden plover, ruddy turnstonea end bristle- 
thighed curlews also. We have seen 2 fulls and one sanderling. 
It was warm enough for shorts during the day but the temperature 
dropped rapidly as it clouded over late this afternoon and on toward 
dusk.• 
After dinner we split into two groups and banded birds till after 
midnight. Fred and I worked on all species of boobies and the frigates. 
We banded ai total aggregate for these species of 104 individuals. We 
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also recorded sex end age of the birds if it was possible to determine 
this data. We tagged fctive nests and recorded which birds were on them so 
we can check back on the nesting birds. 
The other group Bob, Binion, and Allen, bended 200 Sooty, petrels 64 
Bonins, 16 ruddy turnstones, 2 golden plovers and 9 terns of 3 species. 
Species recorded for the island today are* 
Laysan Albatross 
Tropicbird RT 
Black- footed Albatross 
Golden plover 
Ruddy trains tone 
Sanderling 
Brown Booby 
Red-footed Booby 
Masked booby 
Bristle-thighed curlew 
2 Larus sp. (diff.) 
Sooty tern 
Gray back tern 
Hawaiian Noddy 
Common Roddy 
Frigate 
