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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
W-NW
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE 8 June 1960
Pg.# 1
Noon Position: 23-40N; 165-30W
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
05:11 Begin observations - Sunrise - Necker Island in sight.
05:11 Bulwer's 1 SE
05:12 Sooty Tern 2 N ad.
05:13 Bulwers 1 S
05:13 " 1 S following ship
05:14 BFA 1 ©
05:15 Wedgetail 1 @ light phase
05:15 Haw. Noddy 1 SE
05:16 RFB 1 SE adult, light phase
05:18 Soot Tern 1 E ad.
05:20 Wedgetail 1 CSE light phase
05:25 Haw. Noddy 2 W
05:26 Wedgetail 1 SE light phase
05:28 Booby Sp. 2 SE white- RFB or BFB
05:29 Sooty Tern 2 SW not together - adult
05:29 C. Noddy 2 SW
05:30 C. Noddy 2 SW Most Birds
05:30 Sooty Tern 1 SW ad. coming off
05:30 Wedgetail 1 SW Lt. phase Necker Is.
05:31 Fairy Tern 1 SW
05:32 Wedgetail 1 SW Lt. phase
05:33 Bulwer's Petrel 1 SE
05:34 Wedgetail 1 W Lt. phase
05:35 Sooty Tern 1 S.W. ad.
05:36 Bulwers 1 S.E
05:36 Soot, Tern 2 S ad.
05:37 BFB 1 NW landed on H.O
05:37 Haw. Noddy 1 SE
05:38 Fairy Tern 1 SE
TF 05:39 RFB 2 W ad.'s light phase
05:40 C. Noddy 1 SW
05:40 Wedgetail 1 SW light phase
05:40 Sooty Tern 2 S ad's
05:41 RFB 8 S - ad's, groups of 5 + 3 light phase
05:41 Sooty Tern 1 S ad.'s
05:42 RFB 1 S ad. light phase
05:44 " 4 S scattered, ad's., light phase
05:44 Wedgetail 1 NW light phase
05:45 Sooty Tern 2 ad
05:45 Layson Albat. 1 ad.
05:45 Gray-backed Tern 1 ad. sitting on piece of wood
05:45 Sooty Tern 1
05:46 RFB 2
05:46 Sooty Tern 3 ad in ad
05:46 Wedgetail 1 Lt. phase