Hawaiian Islands area observation check-lists November 1964 (R. S. Standen - C. H. Gilbert cruise 77)
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2 mi Location Off Suptoj Oahu C.H.Gilbert Cruise 77 Observer Standen Date 10 November 69 Time 130 to 1700 Weather Strong Trades blowing over sea partly cloudy 5.6 SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 6 1,1 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Total 509 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby 2 feeding flocks Great Frigatebird 3 5 flocks of Sootyshe Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0,0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy 45 Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Shear Pet sp. 10 Booby sp. 5 81,8 Sooty Shearwat 45 in 5 large flocks migrating 569' 92.5