Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the Truk Islands

Brandt, John H. (September 1962). "Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the Truk Islands". The Condor. 64 (5): 416–437. doi:10.2307/1365549. ISSN 1938-5129.

Abstract: Comparatively little field work on nesting behavior of birds has been done in Micronesia, and information is lacking on eggs or nests of many species indigenous to Atoll. Most collections of eggs were made in the nineteenth century when the isl were under Spanish and later German occupation. Inaccessibility of the island hostility of the natives often made intensive field studies difficult. During the Japanese Administration of Truk (Chuuk), from 1914 to 1945, a veil of secrecy enshrouded the are few western investigators were permitted to collect there. Since 1945, limited to ornithology has been done.

The present study was conducted from October, 1957, to March, 1960. During time, nests and eggs of 27 of the 29 breeding birds of Truk were collected as well those of Phathon rubricauda rothschildi which visits this island but nests in the Tonas Islands. Considerable previously unreported information on nesting date descriptions, clutch size, nest construction, and location of nests was obtained. Nests and eggs of Ducula oceanica teraokai and Rukia ruki were not obtai These two species are the rarest birds on the atoll, and although sight recor D. oceanica were made, Rukia ruki was never observed during my two and on years' residence.

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