. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 68 with a total of 566 to Fred's 560 with Larry trailing badly at 300 or so. I must admit, had I not run into this enormous club (roosting aggregation) where I banded more than 100 birds (some later found nearly 1,000 miles away on Howland Island), I would not have won as Fred was really more adept than I. POST PROGRAM PACIFIC PEREGRINATIONS In ensuing years I visited the Phoenix and Line Islands three more times, participated in two surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and joined surveys of pelagic b
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 68 with a total of 566 to Fred's 560 with Larry trailing badly at 300 or so. I must admit, had I not run into this enormous club (roosting aggregation) where I banded more than 100 birds (some later found nearly 1,000 miles away on Howland Island), I would not have won as Fred was really more adept than I. POST PROGRAM PACIFIC PEREGRINATIONS In ensuing years I visited the Phoenix and Line Islands three more times, participated in two surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and joined surveys of pelagic birds in a variety of areas, but mostly north and east of Oahu and between Oahu and Johnston Atoll. During these years some of our touring was directly for the Smithsonian and other times in conjunction with other agencies. Some of these I remember more strongly. The trip to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in the spring of 1965 was memorable for the truly rotten weather as it rained off and on during most of the trip. It was raw and chilly and one could easily see why the young albatross, mostly birds of southern ocean islands, needed their dense plumage. We had to go out and reshore up our tents following many a windy and rainy night (Fig. 15), during one of which a tent finally collapsed drenching those within. During the day, much of our work as usual entailed banding and censusing birds (Fig. 16) and censusing Hawaiian Monk Seals {Monachus schauinslandii) and Green Turtles (Chelonia japonica) as Figure 15. Setting up camp on Southeast Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, March 1965. (Photo William O. Wirtz, II) Figure 16. Clapp and Dennis Stadel banding Gray- backed Terns {Sterna lunata), on Lisianski Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, March 1965. (Photo William O. Wirtz, II) Some have criticized the Smithsonian Pacific Project because it was funded by the military and because we took blood samples from the birds (although such work was being done quite openly at the
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