Lehner, P. 1965 Feb. 12 Guywire census day; found about 75 eggs on the ground - believed to all be Sooty eggs, but there was no instance of incubation; discovered a total of 4 pair of Christmas Island Shearwaters (1 pair under east beach concrete slab, 2 pair on east shore, and 1 pair in burrow on upper end of NE slope); All morning there were hundreds of Sooties over the island, thousands off shore and over 100 sitting on the islet; off the numerous Christmas Island Shearwaters, Red-footed and Brown Boobies now occupying "nests", no eggs have yet been found; found a juv. Red-footed Booby that had undoubtably bitten a wire and fallen into the high grass stunned - when taken to the beach, he made a wobbly but successful take-off; there were 7 Hawaiian Noddies in the Acanthos nesting colony in the early daylight hours; there are now about 20 Great Frigatebird eggs on the South Shore; found a Red-tailed Tropicbird sitting under a small Messerschmidia bush on the south side of the road to the transmitter building; counted Gray-backed Tern eggs: Pier: 11 total, 1 new, 1 chick Islet: 18 total, 1 new 1815: Sooties sitting down fairly thick on upper part of NE slope, and on the north tip of the NE peninsula 1830: several hundred Sooties sitting on the islet; thousands hovering and flying over and thousands more over the island proper (over)