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Location 8th day
Observer King Schell
Date 23 May '64 Time 0614 to 1838
Weather (m) 17-25 knots from E with heavy moderate cloud
cov and scattered rain squalls
SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross 6 whi count 1824
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1 + '17 light phase
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird /
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling /
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 10
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
White-tailed Petrel /
Tropicbird sp /
Sooty Shearwater 4
Shearwater/petrel 3
Shearwater sp /
# of nestings: 17
# of birds: 0
total birds. 30