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Location 7th dam
Observer King Sundt
Weather Windy, 17-25 knots from E, 15 ft swell - fairly heavy
cloud cover, widely scattered rain squalls
cal continuing
Date 22 Mar 64 Time 0630 to 1845
SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks
1-9 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross 5 high count
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 5 all night phase
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel 1 +1?
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling 4
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 5 More of 5
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy 1
Hawaiian Noddy 1
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger 2
Arctic sp 4 medium - gray back - tail white with black tip
Gull sp 1 + 16 probable
Sooty Shearwaters 12
Shearwater sp. 6 probably Sooty Jaeger
Shearwater/Petrel sp. 4
Petrel sp 1
Tern sp 2 # of sightings: 45
Stomator sp Type b 1 # of flocks: 1
total birds: 75