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Over 600 birds banded on Ender bury have been recaptured on other islands and 
almost 400 birds banded on other islands have been recaptured on Enderburv. Ths.se 
data are presented in# table 
Most of the returns are on Blue-faced 
Boobies and R_d-footed Boobies, two specie’s which have been banded in large 
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numbers omoughout tne Phoenix and Lin6 Islands. AfeB’BRee-'ef— The scarcity of returns 
mainly 
on the other species is 4 due to the lack of extensive banding. 
The number of returns drops off with distance as shown below, 
0-200 miles 
-Q-HQQy 754 returns; ^QQ-gGQ-j 200-400 miles, 191 returns; 400-800 miles , 
59 returns; over 800 miles, 25 returns. 
(see Table ) 
Of the total avifauna recorded from Enderbury*6 are shorebirds which 
migrate from the Arctic iter- and 1? are resident Central Pacific species 
only 4 have not been recorded nesting 
