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Location 3rd day
Observer King, Sundell Date 18 Mar 64 Time 0618 to 1847
Weather light wind (12-17 knots) from east moderate to heavy
clouds no rain
Abundance Breeding
SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Remarks
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
? Wedge-tailed Shearwater 10 in flock with 40 Sooty Terns
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 7
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 63 flocks of 40,10,13
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
New Zealand Shearwater /
Hawkins Storm Petrel 2
Shearwater/Petrel /
Shearwater sp #3
Jaegers sp ? /
# of sightings: 16
# of flocks: 3
total birds: 88