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Sand - Johnston - 1964
Jan. 1 left Friendship Airport 4pm
via TWA 61. Arrived Los Angeles 5 35-
PM. Departed for Honolulu 6 30 pm via
United 95, arrived 9 35 pm.
Jan 2 Checked out of Hawaiian King early
in the morning and deposited gear on
YAG 40. Went on board 7 30 pm.
Jan 3 Underway on YAG 40 9 30 am.
Jan 19 Returned to Pearl Harbor 9 30
a.m. No field notes for YAG trip.
New birds - Harcourts Storm Petrel,
Pomarine Jaeger, White - necked petrel.
Boobies (red 'feet') and Red-Tailed
Tropic-birds most common. Tadrig
flocks of 20-100 Boobies last 2
days out - surprising. Total no.
of birds - ~ 500, 22 collected.
Very few boobies seen on beginning
of trip, a somewhat greater no.
of Wedgetails throughout. Only ~
3 frigates seen. Fairy terns ~
3 days out of Oahu - mixed with
Booby flocks on return trip. Albatross
disappeared morning of third day,
reappeared 3 (3) days out on return.
Jaegers lost after 2nd day.
Jan 24 Departed Hickam AFB, Honolulu,
via MATS 623X to Johnston Is. 12 15 pm,
arrived on Johnston 3 35 pm.