ENDEEBUEY ISLAND 
DRAFT 
BIRDS 
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Audubon*s Shearwater (PuTfirms 1*herminieri) 
Current Status: Uncommon visitor 
Prior Records : On July 26* 1938 Donaghho (1952) found one chick and one 
adult on an egg. There were a number of petrel burrows in the side of the 
l! guano hill” but all the rest were deserted. Munro banded the one adult 
found but called it Fuffinus assimilis 
April 15 and april 3k6* 139 Kinney* one of the colonist* 
Between banded 73 adults at 
this same colony. 
C orreia collected 31 specimen on March 19j> 1924 with the Whippoorwill 
expedition and Schultz collected one in May* 1939 
Prior 
Population^ At present the total population is probably less than 25* 
,imr at least 
to. the 1940*8 the population must have been &r*©un4 ueve^al-hund^ed- 2 or 300. 
Annual-dyele^ - This species has been seen on three different POBSP trips* 
November 10* 1964; February 12-16* 1965 and May 31* 1965* In November* 1964 and 
May* 1965 two birds were observed flying in from the sea at dusk. In February* 
1965 four different birds were found on the "guano hill". One of these was collected 
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and_ two were banded. 
Annual Cvcle: From the information in rrior records 4 her^-e^e a mid summer 
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dip in the population is indicated. On McKean and Phoenix Islands tending 
la eggs and young are present all year round and a similar cycle probably was 
present on Enderbury. 
Reproduction : The selection of the”guano hill !t as the only nesting area seems 
strange since they nest under rocks on most of the other islands. 
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Other specimens ; list the 32 specimens on attached sheet as follows: 
PM39239, M, Iferch 19, 1939; PM 39240, . 
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