RUDDY TURNSTODE--- Annotated List 
LISIMSKE 
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LSjf 20 (cont.) Aug.31-Sept.5 (RBC-CAE Rept. ) 
Red-rumped turnstones were seen four times during the island circuit 
on 31 .August and one or two were observed daily during the rest of our 
stay* It is very possible that some of the sightings made on 31 August 
represent birds seen mo^re than once. It is certain, however, that no 
less than two different red-rumped turnstones were seen, since both a 
bird (or birds) with somewhat dull-faded red-rumps and a bird (or birds) 
with brilliant red-rumps were observed. Two returns of Alaska-banded 
turnstones were made. 
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Nocturnal roosting turnstones, like the plovers, were found roosting 
both inland and in clearings in grass and Scaevola on the beach crests. 
The turnstones, however, appeared to be considerably less numerous in the 
interior and more numerous on the beach crests than the plovers. The 
j largest numbers of roosting birds found at night were found roosting on 
the wave-washed rocks of the northeast corner of the island. As many as 
forty or fifty turnstones were found roosting in this area in one night. 
In these rocks the turnstones very clearly preferred to hunch down in 
the sculpted hollows rather than perching on the projecting portions of 
.! rock. 
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Plumages of the birds ranged from very drab, apparently full winter 
j plumage to full breeding plumage. 
Sixteen banded birds were examined for molt in the primaries. Eleven 
of the 16 (69$) were molting; 3 ( 19 $) bad fresh primaries; and 1 (6$) had 
not yet begun to molt. 
LS# 22 March 20-21(EEC Rept. ) 
Ruddy Turnstone 
Estimated population 
1000 
Turnstones were abundant along the beaches and were commonly observed 
in the interior of the island. At night I saw small numbers of them on 
the beach crests but the largest roosting concentration was found in 
hollows in wave sculpted rocks on the central east portion of the island 
perimeter (where these/birds were found most abundantly at night in 
September 1967 )* 
Kridler informed me that the other members of the party had banded 
170 and gave me a list of 13 returns, all obtained on the night of the 20 th. 
Six had been banded on Lisianski by the P0BSP last August and September, 
4- evidently had been banded by another agency, 1 (712-51706) had been 
banded as a White (Tern on Laysan in September 1967 , and 2 had been banded 
on the East Killing Ground, St. George Alaska. One of the latter, 722-16178, 
had been banded aS an immature on 25 August 1966 and no longer had a streamer 
or a red rump. The other, IIO 3 -O 3235 , a red-rumped, streamered bird, had 
been banded as a immature on 25 August 1967 * 
