King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 12th day Observer King, Sundell Date 27 Mar 64 Time 0604 to 1845 Weather Windy, 18 kts from E moderately high swell, light cumulus clouds SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross 1 Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 7 slight phase & dark phase / ? Christmas I. Shearwater? 1 Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel ? 2 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel ? 1 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 2 immature Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 4/1+ flock of 40 + with Wedgefoot & 10 Shearwater sp Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Sooty Shearwater 6 + 4 petrel-like Wl. Fr. Noched Petrel 2- Shearwater/petrel 8 Hansoni's Storm Petrel 1 Type B Storm Petrel sp 1 Shearwater SP 11 flock of 10 with 40+ Sooty Terns Newell's Shearwater / Tangalanda SP 1 total sightings: 28 # of species: 1 total birds: 89 92