King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 4th day Observer King, Simbeld Date 19 Mar 64 Time 0630 to 0846 Weather light wind (15 knots) partly cloudy - wind from E. SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 light + plane Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel 1 + 1(?) Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern ? 20 flock of 20 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy ? 1 Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 1 Sooty Shearwater 3 + 3 probable + 2 possible Harris's Storm P. 4 Stercorarius sp 1 large gull-like bird - brown above light below Shearwater/petrel 2 lighter - white in descending surface # of sightings: 22 # of flocks: 1 Total birds: 43