ENDERBURY 
DRAFT 2 
birds 
Reproduction : All nests in the center of a small Cordia grove 
near the "guano hill". During the day ytfe roosting birds flyout to sea and 
return about dusk in flocks of 50 to several hundred. All arriving flocks ce*e 
into the grove eve* from the west side even if .they approach the island 
from some other direction/^hen all the birds have arrived, Sorm time after dark ,£ 
the trees are filled with Hawaiian Noddles. This grove is closer to the shore 
than the groves at the south enci of Enderbury but otherwise seems very similar• 
Some Hawaiian Noddies formerly nested in the southern groves Wvf 
why they do not do so now. 
we do not know 
Banc...Png: Pobsp personnel had banded 219 adults and four nestlings through June 
i>°5- One of the aaults was recaptured on Christmas Islands and one bird# 
■banded as a nestling on Christmas Island was recaptured on Enderbury Island. 
-14—i« Fossibly a significant proportion of the Hawaiian Noddies on Enderbury 
come from onristmas Island, which produces more than 20,000 young each year. 
POBSP Specimens: USNM 495575, K, testes 3x5 mm., 88 gras.. Hay 31, 1965; 
USNH 495576, F, ovary 10 mm., granular, 103.5 gn»s.. Hay 31, 1965; USNM uncataloged 
sex ?, (skeleton), 102 gms.. Hay 31, 1965. 
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