The invertebrates sampled were the spiny lobsters (langouste), coconut crab and "giant" clams-(Tridacna sp., and Hippopus hippopus). Thousands of terns nest at Bikini Atoll, mostly on the western islets. the birds and their eggs will be used as food. at sea, outside the lagoon or reefs. Both The terns almost always feed On the other hand, the curlews and turnstones feed along the shores and on the reef, and the curlew also eats the seeds of an endemic shrub, Scaevola serica, or the beach magnolia. ‘ Although the curlews and turnstones are transients and are present in small numbers, at most a few hundred, they contain the higher levels of radionuclides among the birds.