Fleet, Robert R., 1963-1965
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Fleet, Robert 1964 Hawaiian Noddy - Eight to nine hundred roosting in scaevola. Common Noddy - 600-800. Fifty plus with eggs. Eggs to flying young. Observed two nests in bushes. Sooty Tern - Remnants of large colony. Five hundred remain - adults and flying young. Grey-backed Tern - estimated thirty adults, ten flying immatures. Red-tailed Tropicbird - two immatures, one local. One adult. Wedge-tailed Shearwater - 3500+. All downy young. Bonin Island Petrel - Saw six, heard more, just coming in to island. Maybe 25 total. Christmas Island Shearwater - Saw one pair and three individuals. No evidence of breeding. Fairy Tern - Three flew over island on morning of 9/17. Ruddy Turnstone - estimated 500. Golden Plover - " 50. Wandering Tattler " 5 Bristle-thighed Curlew - counted 29. Monk Seal: counted 33 seals. adult ♂ = 8 " ♀ 6 yearling ♂ 11 " ♀ 4 unclassified = 2 adult " young = 1 unclassified = 1 One yearling nearly all green from algae. Five tagged seals observed: 101 adult ♂ 77 " ♀ 113 " ♂ broken tag adult ♂ one badly faded tag. Green Sea Turtle: night count of 32 turtles. 19 tagged, 1 recovery.