Fleet, Robert R., 1963-1965
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Location Papai Island Observer [illegible] / King Weather Fair to Cloudy. Date Oct. 25, 1963 Time 1530 to 1800 SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Egts Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 70 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover 6 Ruddy Turnstone 16 Wandering Tattler 6 Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern {min., 6 to 8 weeks old. (about 5 adults seen coming in as we were leaving island; not included in above fig.) } } about 35+ in flock of shorebirds.