Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
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that eggs and young can be found in all months.^) The data indicates that breeding 
occurs throughout the year and that eggs and young can be found in all months. If 
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the data indicates breeding occurring throughout the year it also indicates that eggs 
and young can be found in all months. Here is a situation that possibly should be made 
probably way at the beginning of the species accounts that in some cases time just did 
not permit intensive counting or censusing of all the species of birds to be found on 
these islands. The magnitude of the job is just much too great for the time allowed. 
Priorities also differ too. Then again the inaccessibility of many of the nesting 
areas for some of these species such as the Hawaiian or Black Noddy Tern, the Blue- 
gray Noddy and the Fairy Tern makes estimations I think rather minimal. You can't 
count what you don't see unless you get an idea what you have seen from a certain 
percent of the habitat or similar habitat. 
And, under breeding habitat you say observations in 1902, 1966 and 1967 indicate 
that White Terns nested principally on the steep' high cliffs. I think that we can just 
come right without having to cite those and say that they do nest principally on the 
steep roefcy cliffs of the island and let it go at that and just say White Terns nest 
principally on the steep rocky cliffs of the island. Some also have been found nesting 
along the higher ridges and that's very true. We found the same thing true in 1957 as 
we did here on this last trip in '69 and there are times when they seem to be more 
abundant on one part of the island than the other. 
Getting back to the paragraph on populations. We should insert a statement that 
many nesting areas are inaccessible to humans. These birds are not like the Goonies 
and the Boobies and the like where we can get to practically all of the birds of the 
particular species that happen to be nesting on the island. Got my pages mixed up here 
so we'll go on to the Black-footed Albatross. 
W THP ITW im M i ll TIITWWW— 
The 1969 data has been inserted. On the account page the paragraph of populations, 
second paragraph beginning with "most recent March estimates" change most to some. 
Next sentence "on leeward islands" change to on the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 
