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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.