Tape #2 
Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
P-3 
higher slopes and. the ridges and just about everyone of them has a nest in it and 
sometimes two depending on scraggly the particular plant is, so we will start a new 
sentence with Fisher 19CQa:779 reported etc. Then I have a note on the side of this 
paragraph here saying "during each March trip we note that Frigates are scattered all 
over the north slopes of Summit and Flagpole hills in among the Red-footed Boobies. 
all 
And in addition, they are scattered all over the tops of/the hills and upper slopes 
of the other hills other than those mentioned. By George, these frigates, you start 
running into them when you start getting to the top of Annexation hill there in amongst 
almost 
the old hay (?), and they're scattered all along clear around over/to the east end there. 
And there are very few that go down below the top of the south slope because it's so 
sheer and there are so few plants there but as you look down the north slope, of course, 
there's quite a bit of Chenepodium going, sometimes at least half, if not a little bit 
further, down along this slope and you see the frigates scattered all along nesting 
down there amongst the Chepodiunu.,_a s well as of course, right at the very top. 
Now to this banding business - you've got all the banding records, Roger. I 
don't recall whether we've ever banded any frigates but we did band albatross and a 
number of other things there on Necker and I think that probably we may wish to include 
this under Banding and Movements. I think we've given you all our return data on any 
of the birds which we tagged on Nihoa and Necker and other islands and were recovered 
elsewhere. Although, here again, we banded a number of Blue-faced Boobies as I recall 
on Necker and I don't think we banded much more than a few Blue-gray Noddies and possibly 
Fairy Terns on this particular island. Whereas on Nihoa I recall the March 1964 trip, 
we banded several Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. Through the various March and September 
trips a few Blue-gray Noddies, however concentrating most of our work on Nihoa on the 
finches and Miller bird.. So, on your table for Frigatebirds on Necker I haveiddded the 
1969 data and the population estimate, Roger, is the absolute minimum. We counted 850 
nests, and we possibly missed a few and if you would double this, it would give us the 
number of breeding adults and that's 1700. Now, we didn't here again, make an account 
of other adults flying and there were quite a few immature frigates and I had asked 
