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Flocks 0720 75 Sooty Terns feeding
50 Wedgetails
0745 40 Sooty Terns
50 Wedgetails feeding
1 Tropicbird!
0858 5 Wedgetail scattered
1126 15 Sooty Terns scattered
1350 15 Shearwaters scattered seen by watch.
1550 15 Sooty Terns imm. scattered 25-100ft
3 Wedgetails
Tropicbird sp above flock at 0745
White - tailed Tropicbird at 0827 had short retrices but
adult plumage
All Wedgetails light phase.
One Sooty Tern, at least, in 1550 flock was immature.
All Sooty Shearwaters heading NW