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flocks: 1000 20 Wedgetails 1040 5 Wedgetail
traveling traveling + Dark-rumped Petrel
1105 30±5 Wedgetail
traveling 12±2 Dark-rumped Petrel
5 Sooty Tern
1 Newell's Shearwater
2 shear/petrel
1416 35 ± 2 Sooty Tern
traveling 10±2 Wedgetail?
2 Dark-rumped Petrel
1456 75±15 Sooty tern
feeding 20±5 Wedgetail
1 White-mocked Petrel
4 shearwater/petrel
All Wedgetails in tone were dark phase today.
All Dark-rumped Petrels, White-mocked Petrels and
Bon Island Petrels were molting,
At 1416 at least 1 of 35 Sooty Terns was immature
Several birds were shot at and seemed to be slightly
affected by shot but none slowed or dropped.
Had to suspend collecting after 1200 due to heavy seas.