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Location 1st day TC-4
Observer King & Bradley Date 17 May 64 Time 0830 to 1902
Weather Calm, little swell around islands until 2 PM then regular ocean swell wind E 22 knots.
SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 229 flocks of 50, 40, 15, 30, 50,
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel 81 flocks of 9, 9, 8, 5, 4, 4
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird 12
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 5
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 253 flocks of 80, 80, 30, 25, 20
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy 13
Hawaiian Noddy 5
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
Sooty Shearwater 5
Shearwater/Petrel 4
Newell's Shearwater 9
Dark-rumped Petrel 1
Sterna? 1
# of sightings: 105
# of flocks: 9 8
total birds: 619