Hawaii, O.I. 1965 Journal 53 February 13 Cordelia Island The moon will be with us until dawn. Come, we'll give the boobies a try tonight. Spent the early part of the morning cutting wing tags for albatross Frigatebirds. This afternoon or early tonight we'll attempt to put on a few of them. At 05:00 Merrill went out to the ship to run blood samples. Hurka had already been gone for about 30 minutes on a seabird count. Around 08:30 Paul went down to the lagoon to look for seabirds and to check nesting conditions there. Paul returned around 9:15, picked up a string of # 5 birds and went down the west shore looking for Red-tailed Tropicbirds. The rest of us walked to the frigate colony on the north end and then on to the guano pile. The Great Frigatebirds are on fresh eggs in the main colonies and in the smaller colonies that are located in the interior along the south end of the lagoon. There are few nesting frigatebirds on the island. Red-footed boobies are on eggs at present, but a large number also have small to medium sized nestlings. Between the guano pile and the north end of the island we found two large Sooty Tern colonies. The colonies extend all the way to the north shore of the island. The middle of the three colonies is on large nestlings while the other two have eggs and a few small chicks. A few Hawaiian Noddy Terns were nesting in the far (north) part of Cordelia. One 1/2 grown nestling and 12 eggs were found.