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SI-MNH-142
6-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
Bi-Weekly Bird Summary Report
1) Total Survey Unit: HOWLAND ISLAND
(2) Observer(s): ATF Party
3) YEAR: 1964 (4) MONTH: October
(5) PERIOD: 9th - 13th
1-13----16-end of month--
(6) Species
(7) Date
(8) Number
(9) Rel. Class
(10) No. of Nests
(11) Rel. Class
(12) Date
(13) No. of Young
(14) Rel. Class
Returns
(15) Age of Young -- 0-10--11-20--21+
Birds Collected
(16) Young Banded
(17) Date Banded
(18) Others Banded
Red-tailed Tropicbird
75
B
6
A
27
A
11
1
24
16
Blue-faced Booby
3000
"
136
"
248
"
814
1
172
532
Brown Booby
100
"
4
"
-
-
6
-
-
9
Red-footed Booby
70
"
8
"
17
A
24
-
15
23
Great Frigatebird
200
"
2
"
83
"
-
-
83
-
Lesser Frigatebird
18,000
C
100
B
8,000
C
-
10
2000
-
Golden Plover
108
B
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
Ruddy Turnstone
71
"
-
-
-
-
-
-
1 **
Wandering Tattler
$7
"
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
Bristle-thighed Curlew
13
A
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Sooty Tern
100,000
C
8,500
C
36,000
C
1
18
2000
8200
Gray-backed Tern
50
B
4
A
-
-
-
-
-
-
Noddy Tern
12
A
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
5
Hawaiian Noddy Tern
1
A
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
**(Caught at sea - banded and released on Howland )
TOTAL
73* 14 species
8 breeding
856
35
(4294
13,101
8807)