King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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Location 7th day Observer King B ratley Date 23 May 64 Time 0600 to 1900 Weather heavy winds 25-35 knots rain squalls - swell to 20 ft. SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 61 1 dark Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 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 18 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Harracort's Storm Petrel 4 Shearwater / petrel 2 Storm petrel / Bulwer's 1 Sooty Shearwater 2 Tropicbird sp 1 Pomarine Jaegers 1 Narrow-billed Skua 1 # of sightings: 31 Diff species: 2 total birds: 93