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coconut
item,
they
coconut
at Aerokoj
crab,
would
crabs
Thousands
islets.
food .
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or reefs.
not
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shores
seeds
of an endemic
in small
the highest
levels
turnstones,
noddy
Rats
living
are not
on the
radionucliae
well
always
hand,
feed
used
atoll,
found
species
levels
the
of
survey,
, was
the
collected.
and a food
of hermit
Atoll,
crabs,
but
at most
and
will
and a few were
among
terns
they
eats
the
magnolia.
contain
Curlews,
sampled.
are the only
taken
feed
and are
the birdswere
as
lagoon
or the beach
a few hundred,
they
the
also
are transients
as food but
be used
outside
curlew
serica,
fairy
on the
and turnstones
and the
Scaevola
mostly
eggs
at sea,
t-he curlews
of radionuclides
terns,
the
organism
and their
and turnstones
numbers,
90~r
instead
at Bikini
and on the reef,
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present
nest
shrub,
larger
during
of
were
on Aerokoj.
the birds
On the other
the
received
sampled
found
almost
alonq
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to check
concentrator
been
of terns
western
Tslet.
are botln an indicator
have
were
sma l.ler species
request
Islet,
a known
crabs
the
mammal
to determine
their
content.
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was
collected
points
the
soil.
into
by driving
The well-point
half–inch
pipe
with
sites “on Bikini
and