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ENDERBURY ISLAND 
BIRDS 
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hundred yards north of the lighthouse. . _ 
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old drums, wreckage and the house. /In the interior of the island, alternating 
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layers of hard and soft guano rock have been exposed 
guano diggings. Weathering has produced uneven wear on the different layers 
and an overhanging ledge has been formed around the edge of the ccn fr inn l e^oaoS^Jl 
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of tropicbirds wasfciL nest and -ono can '-find a " -nest every f ew fctrt along ~ddch 
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is\at the south end of the island (bntr-not—border ttiu'STT"along the. n v 
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by propping up three or four thin slabs of beach rock to form a small shaded * 
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nest area with one or two. entrances. The guano workers built a number of ^ 
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these buu ones" built ’ by-~PQBSP personnel would ' be—eooupied. by t he next needs - 
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Banding : POBSP personnel have banded 570 adults and 240 nestlings, hone 
of these have been recovered on other islands through August 1965* 
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t h^»r^m ± y,, ' p ^ 1 ' ■ ju fe -sstegy l§j£ga=^aifflbers^ 3 ^adult birds have been banded 
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or recaptured Is. May and July. 
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the 77 band returns 
have been one or two years after banding. 
Of the 246 adults banded in July I 965 approximately 25 percent were 
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i*ecaptured in July 1964. An additional 278 birds were banded in July 1964 
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