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Lehner P.
1964
94
Oct. 27
up at 7:30; at 8:25 Ken, Roger and myself
went to Bogenboa Island while Binion, George
and Larry went to Erikub Island; we had
rough water going in and had to run
parallel to the island (east) into the waves and then
cut back (south) with them into the island;
we collected a sanderling, Common Noddy, and
Brown Booby as well as a Coconut Crab, the
first I have seen; we also saw some Black-
naped Terns on the S. West Peninsula; the
density of birds was markedly greater on the
east and northeast ends of the island; I
saw what I thought to be a White-tailed
Tropicbird, but got only a glimpse of him
and could not make positive identification;
there are scattered mango trees on the island;
we left Bogenboa at 11:10 and headed
straight for Erikub Island on the north shore
where we could see the other raft and
the native's outrigger which had visited the
ship earlier; we hit the beach of Erikub at
11:35; we were immediately told that the other
group had collected a goose; it looked like a
Snow Goose to me, but I cannot believe that is
possible; it began to rain and the father of the
native family took us into the now deserted
positive identification later proved it to be a
Snow Goose