Hackerman, C.P. 1965 Journal 61 February 16 Edelney Island Before the moon came up we decked around and mirrored to band 15 Blue-footed boobies and captured 101 terns. This was accomplished in about 35-40 minutes. As soon as the moon came up the birds became impossible to capture. While banding Red-footed Boobies in the Cordia grove near the guano heap we found a few chicks. There did not appear to be a large population. Amazingly enough, we have found no chicks in either of the two small Sooty Tern colonies on the south end of the island nor here we found any chicks on the birds that were handled on the north end of the island. It would be interesting to see if the chick population in the Cordia grove (which is right beside one of the tern colonies) suddenly increases in number as more and more chicks are hatched in the tern colony.