King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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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