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Location 12 th day
Observer King, Bratley Date 28 May 64 Time 0530 to 1820
Weather Wind 15-20 knots from SE hazy, glare & partly cloudy
SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 + Nests Eggs Young
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 97 1 Aght phase
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel 9
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel 2
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 116
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
Shearwater / petrel 19
Dark-rumped Petrel 37
White-headed Petrel 4
Heron's Storm Petrel 9
Petrel sp. 2
Nouvel's Shearwater 3
# of sightings: 65
# of species: 5
total birds: 300