Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
January 1970 
P-9 
Now your next paragraph you say I also lack any notes from the February 
1969 visit to Pearl and Hermes Reef, A copy of the report is being sent 
right along with this belt, so you should be able to extract what you need 
from that, 
Lisianski -I’m sort of puzzled by the population estimates for Fairy 
Terns and Hawaiian Noddy Terns. Here again, I have to consult my notes. 
You say Dave Olsen tried to consolidate the data from notes and I think he 
made some errors during the transcription, so let’s see what it looks like. 
Under Hawaiian Noddy Tern - 30 nests, under population. Thatfe an 
error. The correct count would be 260 and they are as follows: 60 nests, 
were found in the Seavola just around the single lone growing coconut tree 
on the east shore. The other coconut tree, by the way, had its top blown 
off, or is gone. Then there is an ironwood tree to the south of that, 100 
or 200 yards now, I walked down into that and counted 120 nests in that 
particular ironwood tree. Then on the south end or near the south end, 
live 
there f s a/Casurina (?) there and I counted 60 nests in that particular 
Casurina or ironwood tree on the south end. Then there’s a dead Casurina 
a little bit near that and I counted 20 nests in that. Now it strikes me 
that either we overlooked those Casurinas just north of the landing on the 
west side or they didn’t have anything in there but it doesn't quite seem 
possible that there wouldn’t be any in that particular tree, but here again 
I don’t remember for sure. Now getting back to that first colony seen in 
the Seavola at the base of the coconut tree, approximately 50^ of the nests 
contained young, and the other 50 °jo were mainly eggs, there might have been 
1 or 2 empty nests there. 
Fairy Tern- you’re right, the Fairy Tern and the Frigate data is 
identical and the figure which should be used for Fairy Terns is 13 but 
there are not 13 nests, these are just 13 Fairy Terns seen, although I’m 
