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From 11 p.m. to midnight five shearwaters were banded. There are 
fewer than fifty shearwaters present and no adults were positively identified. 
A huge flock of Noddy 'ferns (l^OOfc 200) was flushed from the eastern 
slope of the island. About a half dozen Sooty Terns were heard. 
Deember 2—The bird colony ms surveyed between $ and 10 a.m. Red-tailed 
TroplcMrd 1 (prolonged aerial display over unseen bird on ground south¬ 
east of transmitter building), Brown Booby 5# Fed-footed Booby 150f,25, 
Great Prigatebird 200f 25, Golden Plover 30+ 10, Noddy Tern 450+ 25 
Ruddy Turnstone 25 + 5 * 
Geroge set up the mist nets during the afternoon and recovered a 
band from an almost clean skeletal. I worked on field notes and correspondence 
December 5 — From 9 P*»- to midnight 15 Noddy Terns and 12 Wedge-tailed 
Shearwaters were banded. 
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December ^—From eight to 10 a*®, a second survey of Johnston Island ms 
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conducted (see November 27): 
Snnderling 2 (both seen along the bay at the west and Of the island! 
both in typical winter plumage) 
Wandering Tattler 2 Ruddy Turnstone kO Great Frigate!) trd 3 
Golden Plover 50 • Fairy Tern 5 Red-tailed Troplcbird 1 
December 5—Geroge picked up an adult Sooty Tern about 8 a.m» 
that had no broken boms but ms unable to fly. It ms released and 
observed later in the same area (south part of the colony where two 
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immature Sooty Terns (including one with a broken and rehealed wing) 
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are still present)* 
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