King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 4th day Observer King, Bratton Date 20 May 67 Time 0605 to 1855 Weather at times overcast heavily, sunny; Wind 18 knots from NE. SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 235 125 dusk, 20 light, 90 undetermined Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel 9 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 8 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 3 all immature Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 2 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 280 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Shearwater / Petrel 7 Dark-rumped Petrel 3 Newell's Shearwater 9 shearwater sp. 2 bird sp. 2 White-cheeked Petrel 8 Hawaiian Storm Petrel 7 # of sightings: 78 Tropicbird sp. 3 # of floats: 7 Storm Petrel sp. 2 total birds: 589 Jaeger? 1 Petrel sp. 2 including 1 possible crimson-winged