King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 13th day Observer King Bratley Date 26 Apr 64 Time 0600 to 1830 Weather 20-25 knots from E with partial overcast + scattered rain squalls Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 132 118 days built 8 un determined phase fledgling 50 to 10 + 50 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 +1? Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 2 Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 132 fledgling of 7, 135 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Dark-mantled Petrel 7 +1? Newell's Shearwater 3 Shearwater sp. 15 Sooty Shearwater 25 Hansen's Storm Petrel 11 Storm petrel sp. 1 Black-footed Shear? 2 Petrel sp. 2 Tern Jaeger 1 White-winged Petrel 1 frid 1 # of eaglets: 67 # of fledges: 3 total birds: 339