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Huber LN
1967
Journal
Oct 14 Bikar Is
On Traongi I saw two fairy terns
screaming each other at night. Also saw
a frigate after an immature black-naped
tern - didn't get any food from tern.
Saw a wedgetail feeding young. The adult
opened its mouth and the chick put its
beak through perpendicular to the
adult's and ate [illegible] a common
noddy I saw feeding its young
opened its mouth and the young
specked the food from the bottom of
the parent's beak. Saw a male frigate
with 7 colors or a ? with a ? throat
pouch. A lot of Ruddy Turnstones
setting on the tips of dead trees
sometimes 10' from the ground.
Found a Reef Heron Roosting
on the shore. It was up in the
vegetation under a low tree.
Its neck was all folded up and beak
pointed slightly upward (it was raining
that night). Saw a Bristle-thighed
Curlew roosting about 6' off the
ground on a branch about 5' wide
at night. One of the Golden plovers I
banded kept pulling at its band constantly.
Most golden plover roost singly at
night and join in flocks in morning
out of 76 bands only 4 pairs were encountered
and one of those pair is questionable. 10/28/81