Husted, Dayle N., 1964
Page 12
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Husted, Dayle N. 1964 Flocks 12 July 1 No Flocks July 2 No flocks July 3 No flocks July 4 1126 - 10 Sooty Terns Feeding 6 Wedgetails 2 Bonin Island Petrel 1 Dark-rumped Petrel 1700 - 300+ 50 Sooty Terns 100 + 25 Wedgetails 1 Dark-rumped Petrel 1 Frigatebird Feeding 1 Fairy Tern 1 Pomarine Jaeger ? 1735 - 100+ 25 Sooty Terns Feeding 50+ 25 Wedgetails 1 2 Frigates 1800 - 35+ 5 Sooty Terns Feeding 25+ 10 Wedgetails 1811 = 3 Sooty Terns Traveling 2 Wedgetails 1814 - 250+ 50 Sooty Terns Feeding 75+ 5 Wedgetails 10 Dark-rumped Petrel 1818 - 100+ 50 Sooty Terns Feeding 50 + ~25 Wedgetails 1850 - 100+ 25 Sooty Terns Feeding 25 + 10 Wedgetails 1856 - 6 Sooty Terns Traveling 3 Wedgetails July 7--We left the airport in Honolulu at about 1045. We were about 45 minutes late, because a bunch of important looking men (in white coveralls) were sitting around smoking cigarettes and looking at the nose wheel of our airplane. We landed in Kauai at about 1120. We rented a VW and then went to the Booby colony at Kilauea lighthouse.After looking over the situation we banded 138 Red-footed Booby chicks. Five were too young to bird, 15 - 20 were already flying, and 40-50 were increased. We finished banding about 1900 and then headed for an appartment in Honolulu. Also, the Coast Guard boys told us about a Bulwer's Petrel, we found and we banded; she was sitting on an egg.