King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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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