Hawaiian Islands area observation check-lists November 1964 (R. S. Standen - C. H. Gilbert cruise 77)
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Location Between Kauai & Ni'ihau C.H. Gilbert Cruise 77 Observer R.J. Hender Date 12 Nov. 1964 Time 0630 to 1630 Weather Clear with light winds 10,0 SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Obs. interrupted during blood sampling but we Remarks were in flocks all the time during the sampler. Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross 1 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 225 22,5 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Total 544 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby 1 Brown Booby 23 Red-footed Booby 138 Great Frigatebird 13 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 21 2,1 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy 120 Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Newell's shear 1 3 flocks 544 54,4