of the water.
Occasionally smsll octopi are eaten.
not scavengers and do not eat refuse.
Terns are
The food of the shore
birds is composed mostly of insects and small mustacea found
on the beaches.
At Aaraanbiru one shore bird was taken in addition to the
terns, and at Rojoa the collection consisted entirely of shore
birds.
The shore birds taken included the golden plover (Plu-
vialis dominica fulva),
the wandering tattler
(Heteroscelus in-
canus), and the turnstone (Arenaria interpes morinella). Shore
birds are not destrable specimens for the purposes of this survey because of their extensive migratory habits, but were collected when terns were not available.
In the instances where
shore birds were taken, however, the factor of migration was
of little consequence.
on the
It was apparent that these birds were
island where collected at the time of the detonation,
they were
as
injured and burned to such an extent they were unable
to fly.
Rojoa was the closest island to ground zero on which live
birds were seen or taken.
The birds at Runit, Rigilil,
clally at Rojoa had been burned,
were ill (Figs. 9 and 10).
and espe-
sometimes to the bone, and
Birds with dark colored feathers
were burned more severely than were the white fairy terns.
The birds were placed on ice as soon as they were shot.
The rats were returned alive in the traps.
Upon return to the
Oakhill the traps, with the rats, were placed in a deep freeze
unit so that death occurred from freezing.
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