Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
Tape #2 
p .2 
just list the Pacific Project and we would appreciate adding either my name or the 
Bureau 1 s name to this. Because this was the time Doug Hackman went with us and certainly 
Doug was a minority and we gathered the bulk of the information. Of course we f ve gone 
over this all before and I’m sure it’s been pretty well cleared up. 
Let’s get on over to the Frigatebirds - looks pretty good, Roger;, I’ve added 
the March 1969 data and the first page under Frigatebirds - second paragraph - 
populations - at the end of the first paragraph after 1965 and 1967 * I’ve added this 
sentence ’’the number of nests counted in March 1967 and March 1969 were almost identical, 
832 versus 850 ’.’ It’s amazing how close both counts came and both counts were counted in 
a similar manner by us and were essentially a head count. We may have missed a few nests 
but certainly less than perhaps 10 or so. 
Annual cycle - the fifth line - I’ve inserted very between a and small proportion 
of the nesting population. And here again, this is unfledged young there in March and 
we would assume that there are very few if any unfledged young in February also. Then 
the last paragraph on the page. You say, a few eggs may be laid in late February but 
no egg laying probably occurs in March and April, let’s scratch out that probably. 
Most egg laying does occur in March and April, certainly in the latter part of March 
and early April on the basis of our March trips. And then when you go through the 
text here, there’s a number of probablies and I think we’re weaseling a little bit too 
much there. Now, also the last word and before we get into the next page - you say 
hatching probably occurs primarily in May or June but may occur as late as early August. 
Here again I’ve scratched out the probably because based on the counts of the nests that 
contain eggs or quite a few eggs, I imagine we could say that hatching occurs primarily 
in May or June. On the next page, the first large paragraph, in parentheses you have 
the statement Immatures seen by Kridler in July 196^ were almost certainly young from 
preceding nesting seasons. I’ve scratched out the almost certainly. 
Next paragraph - breeding habitats - I’ve added - line three - towards the end - 
where you say ’’dense Chenopodium bushes and Fisher reports” after Chenopodium bushes 
and insert also utilize almost every bush of Sustania scattered along the ridges and 
higher slopes. And this is the case. There’s Suatanla there scattered all along the 
