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P. DeBenedictis
1964
Feb 14
Punta Suarez, Espanola (Wood) Island, Galapagos.
like me. The ledge with the two young also contains
2 eggs: The young had fully developed flight features
and looked as if they could fly, but I may have frightened
tem into the small depression they were sitting for,
I was able to catch one with little difficulty. The
adults were frightened from the ledge when I
approached but didn't bother me at all when I
had the young bird in hand; by this time I had
killed the young & climbed to the cliff top all
the adults and the remaining young returned to
the former position it had occupied. Very little
aggression in the colony but occasionally one bird
threatens another either with a forward posture
(of Tinbergen) or with a low oblique with the bill
open and calling. I checked the net to find another
morner [illegible] in the net (2nd fin also); I lived just
flown in when I approached. I got mad at the
birds running under the net and moved forks got
the bottom tie on the ground. On this way back to
camp I saw 2 nice Billy goats, one brown, one brown
with a white body (relied on [illegible] and I saw about 8
goats along the edge of the Blue-footed Booby colony. Late
lunch and then skinned the Creagrus. After this I
went to check the net finding 2 Cuthidus, one
in the middle, one near the ground at one corner,
tangled up plus a Geospiza fuliginosa & and a
& Traspiderus well tangled up. As I was untangling