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Make Menu (cont.) 21 June
15.
3) Bulwer's Petrel saw 1 only.
Prob an egg, deep within burrow =
6' back in cliff side.
4) Blue-faced Booby 1 pair
Incubating 2 eggs, at Western end of
island. ♂ scared away from area, &
cont. to incubate the 2 eggs.
5) Brown Booby 150 ± 50 nests
Few eggs, mostly with young that
have well developed primaries + contours
6) Red-footed Booby 400 ± 100. nests
Most with young, juveniles & immatures
arising. Few on eggs or naked young. One
egg in process of hatching as we arrived
on nest.
7) Great Frigatebird 400 ± 50
No nests, perched all about miles of island.
At our approach they soared to W end of 2nd
piece of island, leaving them. Strange ratio -
in several sample counts - 90% ♂♂ to
10% ♀♀ & imm
8) Wandering Tattler - 1 on E beach area.