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DRAFT 
BIRDS 
35 
Wandering Tattler ( Hetcroscel us incanu n); 
Current Status s Regular migrant and summer resident. 
Population: This species is less common than either the Golden Plover or 
^ nr 
Ruddy Turnstone but some individuals are always present on 
Table __ 
__ ■ Wandering 
Tattler populations 
on Enderbury Island 
^ February 
May Huly 
November 
1963 
cc^i asw 
(14) 
(IS) 
10 
30 
1964 
(29) 
(15) 
(10) 
mmt 7 
15 
40 
1965 
(13) 
A— (3D! 
61 
10 
The figures for February, 1964 and 1965 are actual counts while 
the other figures are estimates based on partial counts of the island 
The number in brackets is the date of the count. 
Wandering Tattlers usually frequent the reef and shore but are occassionl; : 
found aroung the central lagoon. It is less gregarious than the other shorebirds 
\*o & \v CCArC H # ^ p C-i. &W. 
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