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K. Amanman
1964
Sand - Johnston
April 7 - Franklin's bill collected at last!
We discovered it sitting on the
north peninsula in the evening.
Binion scared with the station
gun. The bird possibly may
have been attracted to Sand
by the numerous dead fish
which have washed up from
the dynamiting operations - it
had never appeared here before.
April 4 - Binion and I got out to
North (PMR) Island via the
CG raft to investigate a
report of "about a thousand"
birds on eggs. We found
about 85 grayback eggs and
120 birds. A few Sooties were
flying around and we found
one possible Sooty egg (too big).
There may have been many
more eggs, since the report
was received about a week
before we could get over there,
and they have been busy
pushing that all week. We
collected about 50 eggs from
an area where they were certain
to be destroyed.
April 5 - I got off at the island again
while skin diving and could find