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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E
DATE 21 April 1966
Pg.#
No.00 Pos't: 27°00'N 148°04'
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0630 B-F/A/1butus 2 begin Obs.
0648 B-F/A/Nichols 1
0652 Sooty Shear water 1 NE the wind is down at this bird very markedly.
0720 whale 40+ ft. the dorsal fin looked large and square cornered.
0750 B-F/Albatross 2
0930 Sooty Shearwater 1 N Seen well - flew very close to the ship.
1000 Sooty Shearwater 1 N
1015
1105 dinner resume
1133 Sooty Shear 1 W
1145 Sooty's Shear 1 W
1152 Ternway 2 N possible Arctic terns
1238 hawks type 1 Stone Pkt.
1310 B-F/A/Albatros 2 total 3 7 following ship
1335 Shear Pkt 1 N
1430 King Saur Albatros 2
1505 Sooty Shear 1 N
1530 show resume noted
1545
1555 Sooty Shear 1 W winging Lt underwings.
1610 Sooty Shearw/ed 3 &
1635 s. fty/ftb 1 N - Hord relatively dark underwings seen well with sun at my back.
1642 Sooty/5/16 2 W
1800 close obs.
2/18