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Birds coll, today 
#44 - Telespiza cantans o' ad 
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#48 - Gygas alba kittlitzi $ 
Bill: base blue - terminal black - Irides black - Tarsi & Toes blue- 
gray-Webs buff. 
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Friday 4-27-23 
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High II.E. Wind - broken clouds - gale abating - heavy rain at 9: PM 
Laysan Island temperatures: 7 AM 69° - M. 76° - 6:PM 70° 
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t>t-li blowing but tomorrow or neort day the ship is supposed to come, 
so we tackled it anyway, going over to the big marsh II.E. of the lagoon 
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Saw curlew tackle a few Gray-backed Terns nesting among the rocks kept 
P e ~ ° e -ing bilk it go^ a bird ofi its egg. Then despite the defense of 4- 
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e - ns x ° proceeced to eat tne egg, showing that they simply haven't nunch 
enough to bother a curlew. They drove at him to the best of their ability 
and one even seized it by the skin or feathers of the neck and bodily yank 
n_.._ an ay from the egg, but he simply turned back to his repast. It was so 
c_u..^ c^.e -erne defense so pacnetically futile that Eric seized a rock and 
killed him at his feast. The terns hate and fear the curlew and even go far 
°- their wa 7 tc try and drive them off, but the cursed little turnstones 
and no a lesser degree Plover peck and spy right among the terns without ■ 
