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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
C. H. Gilbert
DATE 1 October 1964
Pg.# 1
STANDER
Subtotals
Sightings
time species # Remarks Approaching Fanning Is.
loc.
0625 Summer watch began.
0630 RF Booby 1 1 1 -
0715 " " 1 2 2 -
0719 Sooty Shearwater 1 1 1 -
0730 Fairy TERN 2 1 2 -
0800 " " 2 2 4 -
0817 Sooty Shearwater 2 2 3 -
0820 Booby RF 1 3 3 -
0821 Fairy Tern 2 3 6 -
0825 Booby RF 1 4 4 -
0827 Fairy Tern 1 4 7 -
0839 RF Booley 2 5 6 -
0850 RF Booley 203 6 26 -
Flock
0900 RF Booley 1 7 27 -
0910 Cooks Pet. 1 1 1 -
0910 RF Booley 1 8 28 -
0935 WJailed Tropictud 1 1 1 -
Flock
0940 Fairy Tern 2 5 9 -
0950 Booley RF 15 9 43 -
0951 Frugale Bird 1 1 1 -
0955 Flock
Booby RF 40 10 83 -
1000
1025 Fairy Tern 1 6 10 Sighted Flaming Island!
1040 RF Booley 2 11 85 -
1055 " " 5 12 90 -
1106 Fairy Tern 1 7 11 -
1113 Booley RF 6 17 96 -
1114 Fairy Tern 1 8 12 -
1120 Sooty Tern 1 1 1 -
1135 Booley RF 25 18 -- Following ship all boat sels seem fine for those following.
Brown Booby 1 1 1
1200 Flock
Hawaiiian Holly 750 1 75 Both Hawaiian + Common Noddies observed sitting on the
Common Molly 54 1 5 water for more than a minute. 5 birds together or walk.
Blue Gray Molly 2 1 2 feed by hovering over H2O + dipping bird in H2O.
Booley RF 25 -- From behind ship.
Fairy Terns 2 9 14
Left Flock.
1230 Flock regrouped. headed into it again.
1240 Adult
1130 Masked Baby 1 1 1 - At Fanning Island!