Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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Lehner, P. 1964 Oct. 25 - continued out to the ship arriving at 1:50 - the waves were still fairly high; the ship then headed east across the lagoon and anchored off Aradojairén Island about 3:00 (once again I was asleep); we had an early supper on the ship and headed into Aradojairén at 4:15 arriving only 10 minutes later; Binion and Hen set out rat traps, Harry and Roger again headed in one direction collecting and George and I in the other; Harry collected a White-tailed Tropicbird and a Wandering Tattler, while George and I never fired a shot; this island is smaller and shows a greater paucity of birds than Loj or Eneqo; we left the Island at 5:40 and arrived at the ship at 5:50, content to sit the rest of the night out on board; at 7:30 Jim (of the crew) saw small turtles swimming by the port side of the ship and began netting them; we netted a total of 18 newly hatched Green Turtles about 3 inches long and all with their egg tooth - they were swimming east (against the waves) at a fairly fast pace (about 4 or 5 knots); they were put in the sink with salt water in one of our piggyback labs; the fishing tonight has been very good - could it possibly be a feeding response to this turtle hatching? The turtles still have