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Gould, P. J.
1964-- At Sea
314
8 May
1348--28 plus or minus ? Terns NE to 100'
1445--Flock feeding no flying fish
to 55 plus or minus 2 [illegible] Sooty Tern
1456 5 Wedge-tails
1 Bulwer's Petrel?
1745--1 Red-tailed Tropicbird 100'
1754--3 Sooty Tern S 10'
1820--1 Shearwater-Petrel SW
1828--1 Sooty Tern NW 15'
2030--1 or 2 Sooty Tern NE
2037--1 or 2 Sooty Tern ?
2230--1 Sooty Tern NE ?
2335--5 Sooty Tern SW?
2347--2 Sooty Tern
heard fairly constantly through
2345
May 9, 1964--Pacific Ocean, Grid Area
0020--Sooty Tern
0025-- Shorebird? heard "pee-up"
0030--Sooty Tern 2 NE?
0050--Sooty Tern 3-4 NE?
0051--Sooty Tern 1
0130--Sooty Tern 3-5 NE?
0145--Sooty Tern several birds calling every few minutes
0215--Sooty Tern nearly every five minutes
0220--Sooty Tern string of birds passing continuously for last 5 minutes
going NE on both sides of ship ca. 20-30 birds
0245--Sooty Tern birds still continuously passing by, maybe 150-200 birds
in last half hour