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Location: Otterton Nell, Point O.
Observer: [illegible] American
Date: 03-15-64 Time to
Weather
SPECIES
Abundance Breeding
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks
Sandy 2.
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
1 total; 53 per night, increasing
Christmas I. Shearwater
22-23 total; 1-10 per night
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 4 2 2 + up to 8 which fly in every day 100-
White-tailed Tropicbird 23
Masked Booby
1 2-7
Brown Booby 80 35 3
Red-footed Booby 16 3
Great Frigatebird 1
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Wandering Tattler
up to 20
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 25-100,000 daily; 3 nightly; ? total
Gray-backed Tern 350 ± 19%
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy 300 ± 25%
Hawaiian Noddy 15 6 4
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern 8 15 11 4 at location 495
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Golden Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone ?
Wandering Tattler ?
Sanderling ?
Western Gull 1
Franklin's Gull 4