Journal Feb 17 Endabury Banded 1000 sooties, 14 Hawaiian Noddis 2 Bluefaced, 2 Brown Boobis last night Saw a sooty tern last night (click) whose feet were half grey Feb 17, CANTON Banded 189 Grayback terns, 28 sooties and 1 wedgetailed shearwater. Could it be that the reason why the sootie colonies move around from spot to spot on the same island is a natural tick control? As I said before the only birds the ticks seem to feed on (birds) are sooty terns. If the colony moved from spot to spot then each new spot would be relatively tick free. And by the time the colony got back to its original spot the ticks will have died out. On Endabury for example there were 6 colonies. 10, 191 The only colony very infected with ticks was the one closest to the Geore heap (1) At Number 2, I found 2 ticks out of about 1500 chicks. Colony Number 4 found no ticks out of a 1000 chicks. didn't see any ticks in colony #3 (but didn't band there. The only trouble with