Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
9
16 June 1964 Tue
KULIOUOU Swamp
Kuapa Pond
Coco Head
+
1045 Kuliouou Swamp - High tide, mangrove
swamp (not dense), mostly open mud flats.
Tide out, much mud exposure.
Black - necked Stilt - 50
Golden Plover - 10 (2 in molly back plunge)
Wandering Tattler - 2
1120 Kuapa Pond - very desolate, prob. due to
construction all about. Saw only Black - crowned
Night Herons - 6.
1215-1500 Coco Head - Stopped all over
the bloody craters, though the merguioto (?) in
craters over cliffs & about. Saw no Fairy
Terns, which was object of search. Managed
to get 2 or 3 wasps stings in back of neck
in my troubles. 6 Fairy Terns were seen in
crater by Mike Ord & Warren King earlier this
month.
In area - Mockingbird (2), Sand Dove,
Chinese Spotted Dove, Zosterops, Nymph,
Brazilian Cardinal, Passer domesticus, game.