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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
DATE 22 OCTOBER 1964
Pg. # 1
STANDEN
time species # dir. hgt. remarks LEFT PALMYRA toward KINGMAN REEF 1000 loc.
FLOCK 14:00 BEGIN
14:15 4 Sooty Tern 4 1 4 -
14:30 Wedgetail 1 ( 1 -
14:31 Sooty Tern 25 2 39
Family Tern 2 1 2
Regent RT 10 1 20
Phoebe RT Brown body 1 1 1 = left flock B 15-15
15:00 Wedgetail 19 2 20 3 right flock
Cook's
16:00 RF Pet 2 4 4 observations from foredeck with gun
RF Basky 13 # 5 33
Sooty Tern 6 3 45
FLOCK 16:00 Sooty Tern 5 4 50
RF body
" " J
Wedgetail 10 6 39
Sooty Tern 20 7 49 50 on foredeck with gun
17:00 Cook's Pet 3 7 70
17:07 Sooty Tern 2 6 72
Cook's Pet 1 8 8
17:10 Sooty Tern 3 7 75
17:11 White Tern 1 2 3
17:13 Cook's Pet 1 9 9
17:16 " " 1 10 10
17:14 Wedgetail
17:22 Cook's Pet 1 4 41
17:22 Sooty Tern 1 10 10
FLOCK 17:26 Sooty Tern 2 8 77
Sooty Tern 9 9 86
17:35 Wedgetail 4 5 45
18:05 Cook's Pet 1 11 11
" "
18:20 Newell shear 1 12 12 - Sunset