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Lehmer, P.
1964
54
Sept. 4 today was the first guywire census;
We were up at 4:30 A.M. to watch the
scheduled missile go off but it was canceled;
Cam ran the census from dawn till 11:30 A.M.;
I took over after lunch and ran it till dark;
during the census we also banded 100 Common
Noddy Tern locals; we also ran the routine
plots the rest of the day and evening; I saw
a Sooty Tern young with still some down today -
the youngest Sooty I've seen since out here; the
Sooty Tern population is decreasing rapidly.