Kirkpatrick, Ralph D., 1964-1965
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R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 24 (cont) 10:30PM to 12:30AM We banded 97 Wedge-tail Shearwaters. I set the mouse traps and Dennis banded an Upland Plover caught in a mistnet. Oct. 25 Sun. etc. 10 AM We ran the mouse grid then spent the rest of the day on paperwork, 10PM, I set the grid Mus traps. Oct. 26 Mon. AM. We ran the mouse traps, banded a Golden Plover caught in a mistnet, and Dennis shot and recovered an unidentified duck. I made up a Mus skin. Lt. (jg) Rich Fleming came over from Johnston I. He ate dinner with us and we showed him around the island. He is a zoologist whose father is an oceanographer with the Univ. of Wash. Rich is in charge of a Naval Oceanographic Unit here which is mapping the bottom of the lagoon. P.M. We placed field numbers on the frozen birds in the freezer. We threw away 6 of the Sooty Terns that had little data with them.