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SI-MNH-142
6-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
Bi-Weekly Bird Summary Report
(1) Total Survey Unit: BAKER ISLAND
(2) Observer(s): ATF Party
(3) YEAR: 1964 (4) MONTH: October
(5) PERIOD: *14-15******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 Birds Collected
(15) Age of Young (16) Young Date Banded (18) Others Banded
Red-tailed Tropicbird
15 B 1 A 4 A - - 4 6
Blue-faced Booby
400 " 18 " 7 " 139 1 7 210
Brown Booby
16 " - - - - 1 - - 1
Great Frigatebird
40 - - - - - - - - -
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
37 B - - - - - 1 - -
Ruddy Turnstone
121 " - - - - - 1 - -
Wandering Tattler
13 B - - - - - 2 - -
Bristle-thighed Curlew
10 B - - - - - - - -
Sooty Tern
500 C - - - - - - - -
Gray-backed Tern
10 B - - - - - - - -
Noddy Tern
300 " 60 B 61 A 2 3 58 2
Fairy Tern
10 A - - - - - - - -
*** -(Seen offshore only - never found roosting on land)
TOTAL
13 species 3 nesting 142 8 (69 219)
288