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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