Galapagos field notes, v579
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De Benedetti 1964 Feb 18 Punta Suarez, Isla Espanola (Hotel), Galapagos. Two oystercatchers were feeding in a shallow tide pool for a while when one started bathing, splashing water over its back. The other then flew off. The did a little feeding, but couldn't see what they were getting. They often get up together and fly sectors the point calling a high, "I see. low whistle, "phiew" or a slight version of this same in rapid succession, the going on long into the night. After lunch I spent about an hour in a Creagous colony of a few pairs, and saw 2 instances of neutral preening. A Brown Noddy was feeding close to shore in the surf and it could see it one drop its feet like a Petrel as it dropped down to pick up some food. Worked E along the S. Cliff. Lots of Tropicbirds staring along the cliff. Heard two calls, the "ten call" given from this "V-figured" described earlier and a drawler, lower, "Prew" "Newer" "Kaw" " which was given from normal flight. There were Two large Green Turtles feeding on the surf below the cliff here. The came to the surface, breathed, flucted for a while, then dove. A few Puffines coming to the ledges by 4: At the top of the cliff 2 of the hump out crop "there are a # of burrows in the soil that look like old marine iguana burrows, mostly partly filled in. On the way back stopped to look at