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C. G. Loran Station, Sand Island, Johnston Island Atoll
After dark (with a 3/4 full moon) we began banding birds.
Mr. Miller and I banded and marked one hundred Wedge-tailed
Shearwaters and then joined Wilz, Amerman, and Elliott who were
ganding and marking adult Sooty Terns. We finished at 12:10 after
doing five hundred Terns.
July 31, 1963
Wilz and Amerman filled out banding reports (Sooty Terns
and Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Pat Elliott sketched some of the
birds. Mr. Miller and I gathered weather data from the station log.
We recorded wind direction, force, temperature (dry and wet) over
the last year. Mr. Miller computed RH from this and obtained monthly
averages. The temperature was surprisingly constant (one 80 - 85)
as was the RH (85 °/o). Mr. Miller needed the data for his work so he
will send a copy of it to the Sand Island for our use. Due to a
very good movie we did not band birds tonight.
August 1, 1963
Since Mr. Miller was leaving this morning we discussed things
for him to check on in Honolulu (dry ice shipment on August 11).
I gave him a summary of our banding records as of the 31st (6163 birds).
During the morning we set up a mist net across the road near the
transmitter building. We were able to band one hundred birds in
one hour and fifteen minutes. At 2 p.m. Mr. Miller left for the
MATS terminal on Johnston Island. The plane, a C119, left about
3:30 p.m. During the afternoon we banded more Sooty Terns by using