Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
January 1970 
p.8 
was March 2J, 1969 . I have a notation here on Common Noddy. One Common 
Noddy on egg and also 1 incubating a rather large but still downy chick. 
On the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper change that to 2 seen. My notes show one 
seen earlier and one seen later the same day. I’ll dig around in my 
July 1967 trip notes and see what I can dig up when I get back to the 
office. 
You say August-September 1968 trip you fill in personnel for several 
visits - Nihoa-Necker, but I need this sort of information as well as 
perhaps as general accounts for the rest of the islands visited. I don’t 
quite understand what you’re asking for, Roger. All of the trips the 
personnel would be the same for all the islands with the exception of 
August and September 1968 . In August-September 1968 that particular trip 
the two Geological Survey people Richard Dill (?) and Dalyrimple (?) landed 
on Nihoa and Necker with us and went as far as French Frigate Shoals where 
they flew back early the next day or even later that same day we landed, so 
they did not continue on and make the rest of the trip with us. Therefore, 
for Laysan Island there were just the k of us, John Sincock, myself, Darryl 
Herbs (?), and Bob Eddinger,and after French Frigate Shoals the only other 
island we were able to visit was Laysan. The Coast Guard dropped us off 
and picked us up ; eleven . days later. 
Now, your next paragraph I don’t quite here again understand. You say 
judging from what you print in the scientific table I guess there isn’t 
anything to add to Necker and I think I have most of the bird stuff for 
Nihoa from when I was out with you. I think however that in your earlier 
letter commenting on a Nihoa report, you made some statement to the effect 
that you got some pretty good population data on Laysan. We don’t have 
that or anything from islands beyond Necker. I think we’ve sent you just 
about all the reports for all the trips which we have made for all the 
islands. Is this what you mean? 
