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HOURLY ACTIVITY OVER BAKER ISLAND, 5 to 7 February 1966. 
5 February 
153° 
l6f*0 
17U0 
181*0 
2000 - 2300 
2l*00 
18 Frigatebirds sp. just off west shore 
3 Sooty Terns off-shore 
21 Blue-faced Boobies (club) on beach-crest north of lighthouse 
3 Sooty Terns and one Fregatebird 
13 Sooty Terns and one Frigatebird 
2 Sooty Terns 
6 February 
21*00 - 0100 
0630 
0730 
081*5 
0915 
1020 
1155 
1330 
1530 
1700 
1730 
1815 
1830 
191*5 
2015 
201*1 
2100 
2130 
2230 
231*5 
0015 
10 Sooty Terns 
No activity over island; Boobies leaving club 
3 °ooty Terns and 3 Blue-faced Boobies 
2 Sooty Terns flying low over center of island 
17 Sooty Terns over lagoon — all adult birds; 
2: Blue-faced Boobies, and three Frigatebirds sp. flying 
far above the island. 
7 Sooty Terns -- 30 feet overhead — near center of island 
2 Sooty Terns along west beach 
2 Sooty Terns -- at lagoon; 1 Frigatebird sp. high overhead 
No Activity 
2 Blue-faced Boobies feeding just outside surf 
1 Frigatebird sp. feeding outside surf 
Blue-faced Boobies off south beach 
1 Frigatebird jpst off northwest shore 
2 Sooty Terns overhead 
2 Sooty Terns overhead 
1* Sooty Terns overhead 
1 Sooty Tern 
2 ooty Terns overhead at lagoon; 2 Blue-faced Boobies 
flying over lagoon 
6 Sooty Terns flying over lagoon 
1* Sooty Terns flying over south side of island 
2 °ooty Terns over west beach 
7 February 
0530 
Terns over west beach 
Shorebird Activity; 
They were feeding on the reef from 1030 to 1500 (low tide). During 
periods of high tide they are to be found resting on the interior of 
the island on the bare coral patches. 
