ReBenedicti 1964 March 6 Guayaquil to Coco Is. on board the "Golden Bear" woke up to discover the pier was disappearing into the distance. Have the "tourisa", damn! I dragged my camera out to the forward hold and watched birds for a while. Not much around. We got out of the narrow section of the port much more rapidly than we came in, and were further from the bank. Saw 4 small (ashy) slate-blue herons with dark bills flying across the river, and later another with a Snowy Egret, showing it is a smaller heron, probably Florida coculla. Saw 4 Ospreys sitting in the mangroves. Two medium sized, short tailed Plovers flew across the river. They were uniformly green with red-orange secondaries. Couldn't tell about facial markings. Several Frigate birds flying overhead, and chasing gulls. We quickly picked up a good group of herons, Coots and a few Gray-hooded Gulls, which were quite vocal. They landed on the [illegible] room as when we came in and called frequently, often from a low oblique or forward position. Saw one 1st year bird, the wings marked: and like the adult below. Saw 2 nice adult Franklin's Gulls flying along side the ship for a short time, and had a dozen Spotted Sandpipers. One Whimbrel in the mangroves. The tide was low and several mudflats were exposed.