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SI-MNH-142
6-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
Bi-Weekly Bird Summary Report
1) Total Survey Unit: JARVIS ISLAND
(2) Observer(s): ATF Party
3) YEAR: 1964 (4) MONTH: November (5) PERIOD: 15th - 20th
(6) Species (8) Number (9) Rel. Class (10) No. of Nests (11) Rel. Class (13) No. of Young (14) Rel. Class Returns Birds Collected (17) Young Banded (18) Others Banded
Christmas Island Shearwater 1 A - - - - - - -
Red-tailed Tropicbird 450 B 30 B 180 B - 3 165 94 91
Blue-faced Booby 9,000 B 130 A 231 A 593 2 183 2664
Brown Booby 300 B 1 A 9 A 17 - 7 51
Red-footed Booby 1000 B 66 A 86 A 17 5 61 36
Great Frigatebird 1000 B - - 348 A - 5 - -
Lesser Frigatebird 1200 B 6 A 468 A - 1 100 -
Golden Plover 90 B - - - - - 1 - -
Ruddy Turnstone 2 A - - - - - - -
Wandering Tattler 5 A - - - - - - -
Sanderling 1 A - - - - - - -
Sooty Tern 150,000 C 10 A - - 5 - -
Gray-backed Tern a few heard at night