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v SOOTY TESY 
Annotated List 
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Lee. 9-16, 1961 ■ Only 2 birds, soaring over northern cliffs, seen, 
(Kramer) 
June 10, 1963 
(Kramer & 3) 
With flying young and eggs. Appear to be limited by lack of 
nesting habitat 
March 6-7^19o^ 
(Amerson, FOBS?) 
(Walker) 
Population estimate 
ho. of nests - 
ho. of young --- 
10-15, 000 Remarks: week old 
6,000 chicks. 
100 
_ Eggs' and week old chicks. East and west colonies eggs only. Central 
colony 50 $ chicks.' ... Large Sooty Tern colony on East face of 
Middle Valley. 75 $ of birds on eggs. 25 $ had young downy chicks. 
... Walked over to helicopter landing. Large Sooty Tern colony 
northwest of Miller s; s Peak, extending over through helicopter 
landing. Most birds on eggs - about 10 $ on chicks.. [At night] Many more Sootys ... 
roosting on ground. 
Jlly 2j>, 196 b 
(Krialeri) Sooty Terns were very common; there was a large nesting colony 
on the saddle between Tanager Peak and Miller Peak. Chicks ranged 
in sire from those still all downy to other(s) flying. Many of the chicks were already 
flying. 
Sept 123-2b, 196b 
(Fleet, POBSP) One bird heard. 
(Kridler) _ Only five were seen. 
March 13-lb,1965 Estimated island total population -100,000 
(Bamko, POBSP) Breeding: ^0 0 |o with- eggs, 10$ with young 
Banded--: hone 
Sooty Tern breeding density, Miller Peak-Helio landing site breeding area: 12 nests, in 
10 ? by 10 ! plot selected as representative of 300 by 375‘ breeding area.(27, 000 breeding 
birds. ' 
(Krldler) _ Estimated 50,000 nests and over 100,000 population. Colonies were 
found on the saddle .between both peaks, on Miller Plateau, and the 
east slope below Tanager Peak. About $0 $ of the nests contained eggs and 10'$ chicks. 
The air was hideous with their noise all night. The colony at Miller Peak was estimated 
to be about 15,000 pair. 
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