King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 13th day Observer King & Rendell Date 28 Mar 64 Time 0551 to 1815 Weather windy - 15-20 knots from E - heavy overcast most of day SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 20 9 light phase // dark phase flock of 70 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel ? 1 Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 3 all immature Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 390, 270 feeding flock of 250, 30, 75, 35 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Hawkmoths Storm Petrel 12 Storm Petrel sp 7 Shorebird sp 1 Phalarope or Sanderling Sooty Shearwater 8 +2 probable White-necked Petrel 3 +2 probable Dark-rumped Petrel 5 Newell's Shearwater 2 Shearwater/Petrel 15 Petrel sp 6 Shearwater sp 6 # of nestlings: 54 # of fledglings: 5 total birds: 481