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SI-MWH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E
DATE 29 Sept. 1964
Pg.# 1
STANDEN
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
1320 left dock at Palmyra Atoll
Spears seen on Island Magnificus, RedTails
Frigate birds
Ruddy Turnstone
1410 Moddy Tern
1420 Locura Obs.
1420 P1m is to circle Palmyra Atoll at about 2 miles.
1421 Imm. Sooty Tern 1 1 1
Red foot Booby 1 1 1
1422 Sooty Tern 1 2 2
1423 " " 2 3 4 Imm.
1426 " " 2 4 6 Imm.
1426 Fairy Tern 1 7
1427 " " 12 2 2
1429 Too many Sooty Terns to record. There are a few every where + I can't separate them - may count them twice - will not record for awhile.
1439 Fairy TERN 1 3 3
1442 Sooty Tern 1 5 7 Imm
Brown Booby 1 1 1
1454 Red footed booby 2 3 3
1500 Sooty Shearwater 1
1505 " " 1 1 -
1506 Early Tern 1 2 2 -
1508 " " 4 7 12
1509 Common Noddy 1 1 1
1510 Sooty Tern 1 8 13
1512 Sooty Shearwater 1 7 7
1515 Fairy Tern 1 4 4 DUE ENTER PALMYRA @ 6 mile
1515 Sooty Tern 1 9 14
1515 Fairy Tern 1 5 5
1516 " " 1 6 6
1517 Sooty Tern 3 10 17
1517 " " 2 11 19
1518 " " 1 12 20
1518 Fairy Tern 1 7 7
1519 Fairy Tern 1 8 10
1519 Red footed Booby 1 4 4
1530 FLOCK
Booby R.F. 110 5 114
BRWD 10 2 11
Sooty TERN 40 13 60
White Tern 6 9 16
Frigate 4 1 4
Noddy TERN 15 2 16
Total 185
1600 Left FLOCK
Scattered birds observed but not recorded to sunset.
Sooty Terns
Rarities like the Noddy Terns
Can't detail
Sunset Obs. ended.
Palmyra still in sight.
1814 Total (224)
1600 headed for Washington Is.