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Hawaiian Noddy Tern ( Anous minutus ) 
Current Status : Irregular ‘breeder. 
Prior Records : Munro (194-1) saw this species off lihoa May 26 - 27 , 1891. Fisher 
(1906) saw on August 5-10, 1902. Other records are Wetmore (1923), 
Vanderbilt and de Schauensee (l94l), Kramer and Beardsley (1962). 
Population: Wetmore (op. cit) observed small numbers in the rock shelves 
below the western cliffs on May 24-26, 1923- Vanderbilt and de Schauensee 
(op. cit) recorded them as fairly abundant on the island August 7-15, 1940. 
Kramer and Beardsley (op. cit) saw them on the cliffs on June 10, 1962 but 
gave no estimate of numbers. 
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The POBSP party on June 5-6, 1963 saw 100 from the ship. The purvey team 
on March 6 , 1964 saw an estimated 1,000 birds. On September 23,-24, 1964^250 
were estimated and on March 24, 1965,700 were estimated. 
Reproduction : Vanderbilt and de Schauensee (op. cit) reported all stages of 
breeding August 7-15, 1940. They indicated that the majority of the nesting 
was in Middle Valley. This is the only record of breeding by this species on 
Nihoa. 
Since this species prefers the high cliffs of the north, east, and west 
sides of Nihoa, its nesting on these almost inaccessible cliffs could easily 
be missed. 
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