Johnston, D. W. 1964 21 20 Apr Wake Island 2. Fuel Farm. Several thousand birds still in their vertical swirl. No evidence yet of nesting. 3. Flipper Point. Oldest and perhaps largest colony. Contains fresh eggs, some incubated, new chicks, old chicks. 4. Peale Is. mainland just across "inlet" from Flipper Point. Growing more and more, with more fresh eggs each day. Here, birds did not return to incubate the two-egg clutches. 21 Apr Fiding back from Kuku Pt. about 1 a.m. we noted several Golden Plovers beside the road. Evidently these birds roost at light out on these gassy plots beside the airstrip. In the morning we visited the Peale Island ternery and got 10 terns for heart studies. Later in the afternoon we went into the Flipper Point colony to band chicks, but to our surprise there were relatively few. We banded only about 225, mostof these being newly hatched--still in the nest. There were, in addition, some older chicks running around in the colony; some of these could fly a little. As they wandered around they frequently received sharp jabs from adults d sitting on eggs. It was quite hot, and adults were coverina eggs or young tenaciously. Also, the adults were most belligerent toward us. As we reached to band a chick, the parent would dart forward with sharp cries, spread wings, and a sharp bill. Several times adults hit me in the head and once, a bird even lit on my back in trying to defend its chick. Usually the chick, after being banded and if it were dry, would begin to run away from the nest. About 4 p.m. we were watching birds over the sand flats at the lagoon. At 4:30 we saw about 9 Golden Plovers rise from the flats and as it gained altitude the flock was joined by about 15 others. These, then, began to