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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