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  • primaries are flattened onto the rule. Birds are weighed in paper tubes of appropriate size + released by blowing through a small release trap door. A banding record is maintained for each band size. Records kept at the main building include a journal, a special book for species observations + a master book of species records summarizing all records of all species since operations began here. In general the operations are well designed + lack only directed purpose. No one is studying anything in particular + the whole effort is very much of a hobby scheme. The island offers excellent opportunities for studies of 3 species of tern, kittiwake, fulmar, murre, razorbill, lesser b-b. [black-backed] gull + herring gull + nobody is doing anything about it. The trouble is that Oxford alone is doing any really scientific work on Ornithology, I don't know yet about Aberdeen. We spent our 2 days on the island reroofing one trap, photographing, exploring + in banding 9 birds including tree pipit, rock pipit, willow warbler + scarlet grosbeak. Arrived home tonight about 9 o'clock.
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