Huber, Lawrence N., 1963-1966
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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