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Hoeman, Vincent D.
1964
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on the slope just east of which is colony of nesting red-footed boobies.
One old dead bird feet tied together (?). Quite tame, a chain keeps
tourists back, but Jim goes over to shoot movies, C. G.
who operate light don't care. Warren says W T tropicbird on other dliff
and we see one brown booby. Robinsons own land here too. Mynas,
ricebirds, dover and Chinese thrush seen here at this northermost point
on the main islands.
Next we go on the Hanalei Valley where flooded paddys of taro (?)
yield us fifty stilts, 48 coots, 6 black-crowned night herons, 6 golden
plover, 4 shovelers, 2 koloa (Ha. duck), 1 tattler, and 1 dowitcher. We
drove 2 miles up river before road becomes pure red mud. We'd seen
toads and I caught and preserved a skink. On to Hanalei Apts. where we
get one for 4 fm. Mrs Mahikoa. Then drive on to end of road, seeing
meadowlark, sternella neglecta, and stop at Haena Dry and two wet caves.
At road end are signs for 18 mile trail on which last work was done
1935-7 says one while other gives instructions in case of war or
tidal wave.
Back to the booby colony where we capture a wedgetail shearwater
at mouth-of burrow but have no No. 5 bands. The full moon hampers us so
that twenty red-feets are all we can catch to band, most of them from
active nests. Three nests we find have young - two feathering so about
two weeks old.
Many toads and a gecko at our apt. tonight. Saw two barn owls,
Tyto-alba on our way home.