Galapagos field notes, v579
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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