King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 6th day Observer King, Sundell Date 21 mar 64 Time 0615 to 1840 Weather moderate winds 16-18 knots from NE, fairly heavy swell, fairly thick overcast partially clearing at intervals - occasional rain squalls SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross 1 Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 19 Christmas I. Shearwater 4 in flock with 16 Sooty Terns - all light phase Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel ? 1 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 2 1 adult Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 16 flock of 16 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Newell's Shearwater 1 Harcourt's SP Type B 9 petrel sp. 2 Sooty Shearwater 5 + possibles or probables 10 White-necked Petrel 1 Shearwater/petrel 35 white bird ? 1 storm petrel sp. 1 Shearwater sp. 2 # of sightings: 47 # of flocks: 1 Total birds: 78