Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp January 1970 p„7 
So then, this will be here for all these other species that I've just 
been talking about. This is the reason for the discrepancy, we all counted 
nests wherever we could but apparently I was the only one that tried to 
check the status of some of them. 
Hawaiian Noddy Terns - on your percent with nest count is that a 
sample of 700 nests or different sample number that you took? If so, 
how many were in the sample? Here again, nobody else checked, but I did 
and I checked 100 nests and this was distributed among several colonies. 
Now I did find that we had some small colonies scattered around the north 
side of the lagoon and the birds were nesting in the Seavola up near the 
sandy beach part. I also recall that there was.a very small nesting colony 
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on the southwest corner of the lagoon, here again in the Seavola, fairly 
close to those two coconuts way down there on the edge of the lagoon. 
My notes say there are a colony of 150 nests in the Scaevola north of the 
lagoon. I checked 100 nests scattered around of Hawaiian Noddy Terns 
including some which were in the ironwood tree at the landing. So this 
then is a distribution of 100 throughout a number of the colonies and 
100 nests checked, 71 had eggs which were well incubated but I don’t know 
just how many days but I broke open several and they had relatively large 
well developed embryos. Also, of the 100 sampled, 2b contained small downy 
young and 5 were new but empty. 
Your 1^-th question - have you any additional information whether 
Sharp-tailed Sandpipers were seen? If they were not mentioned, they were 
not seen. Just a minute now, I take this back. On page lb of the report 
I have 1 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper seen loafing and feeding along the lagoon 
and as I remember it I scoped the lagoon pretty thoroughly checking to see 
if there were any oddballs there. The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper observation 
then for Laysan, for this April period was mine, because I have it here in 
my field notes. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - 1 and the date it was observed 
