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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