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ESTIMATED BIRD POPULATIONS
1
THONGI ATOLL
Sibylla Island
Great Frigatebird + 4,000
Red-footed Booby 11,000
Blue-faced Booby 3,000
Brown Booby 3,500
Wedgetails 300
Red-tailed Tropiebird 100
Crested Terns 20
Ruddy Turnstones 500
Wandering Tattlers 80
Golden Plover 250
Bristle-thighed Curlew 20
Fairy Tern 300
Common Noddy 300
Hawaiian Noddy 100
Reef Heron 10
between
Sibylla + Breje
{ Blue-gray Noddy 20
Black-naped Tern 15
Breje Island
Great Frigatebirds 2-5,000
Red-tailed Tropiebirds 500-2,000
Kamome Island
Red-footed Booby 5,000
Great Frigatebirds 3,000
Wedgetails 3,000
Sooty Terns 150,000
Fairy Terns 2,000
Common Noddies 150
Island between North and Kamome
Fairy Tern 3,000
Red-footed Bobby 750
Common Noddy 1,000