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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.