Hoeman, J. Vincent, 1964
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Hoeman, Vincent D. 1964 8 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.