King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 11th Day Observer King, Sundell Date 26 Mar 64 Time 0555 to 1830 Weather light winds 8-15 from E - moderate to bright cumulus clouds overcast Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 11-100 101-1000 1000+ Molt Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 4 all light phase Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel / Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 2 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 1 Shorebird sp. 3 Sanderlings or phalaropes Heinroth's Storm Petrel 3 2 Type B Storm Petrel sp. / Tropicbird sp. / Sooty Shearwater 2 +1 possible Sooty Shearwater Shearwater sp. 5 Shearwater/petrel 4 # of sightings: 22 # of birds: 28 # of species: 9