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Location 18th day
Observer King, Britton Date / May 64 Time 0520 to 1345
Weather partly cloudy wind NE 15-20 knots - on our backs.
SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young
Laysan Albatross 1
Black-footed Albatross 9
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 dark phase //
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
Harcourt's Storm Petrel 14
storm petrel sp. 4
Shearwater/petrel 4
Phalaropid 2 probably Phalaropes, some appear wintering
Red-banded Shearwater 1
Shearwater sp. 1
Sooty Shearwater 10
Arctic Tern 1
# of sightings: 36
# of flocks: 0
total birds: 49