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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