Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
January 1970 
Now you next questions pertain to Nihoa and here I think that you 
are refering to our March 19-April 6, 1969 trip. You ask on p. 3 under — 
Sooty Storm Petrel Remarks that 2 individuals were banded. This is the 
first record of nesting of this species on Nihoa, can you give me additional 
information on this? I went back to my field notes and this was a pair 
of adults which were taken out of a burrow about one-half the way up Nora 
Canyon. I took the birds out and banded them and put them back in again. 
I saw a number of other pairs in the little puchas and nooks and crannies 
as I was going up Nora Canyon but we didn’t have the time or I didn’t take 
the time to do anymore banding because we were trying to get our transects 
for the Millerbird and the Nihoa Finch out of the way because we just had 
one day on the island and as I had mentioned earlier we never were able to 
finish the latter because of an unfortunate event whereby the Coast Guard 
forgot about the Emergency signal and blew it while they were engaged in a 
routine man=overboard drill. So, about the Sooty Storm Petrels - this was 
an adult pair taken from a burrow about one-half way up Nora Canyon. 
Question no. k on page 4 under Blue-faced Boobies - you comment — 
that young had hatched. I went through my field notes again and in my 
notes I have eggs to flying young and mostly small young. The report itself 
was written by Dave Olsen and he was a little bit brief on some of these 
comments. Therefore, once again, it should be eggs to flying young with 
mostly small young. Here again, some of the fellows did forget to record 
the percent which were in the egg stage as well as the small downy young 
stage or the half-grown young stage and the like. Then I never was able to 
get up to Miller Plateau where the bulk of the Blue-faced Boobies were nest 
ing. I just got up to Miller Peak and was on my way down the other side 
