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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE 23 June, 1968
Pg. # 3
NOON POSITION: 23-46N; 165-19W
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0905 wedgetail SE H. phase
0906 BFA following ship - 1
0907 Frigate SE adult ♂
0908 Porpise 1 riding bow waves (Bottle nose) tursiops truncatus
0922 Sooty Tern NW ad.
0929 Sooty Tern / NW Ad.
FF 0940 Hawarin NT 8
0941 Sooty Tern 1 N Ad
1010 " " 1 NW ad
1012 BFA 3 hourly count
1014 Sooty tern E Adult
1014 P. hypoleuca 1 ©
1015 " 1 W
1020 Bolwer's 1 NW
1022 " 1 N
1038 wedgetail 1 © H phase
1047 Bulwer's 1 N
1100 Hawn N.T. 1 S
1100 Bulwer's 1 N
1107 Fairy tern 1 NW
1107 wedgetail 1 © following ship, playing albatross
1108 BFA " hourly count.
1112 G. Frigate 1 NE ♂
1112 Sooty tern 3 W
1115 wedgetail 2 E
1116 Sooty tern 1 W Ad.
1117 " 1 W
1126 Sooty tern 1 W Sperm whales - ca 8 heading E 2 ca 50'
1130 Bulwers 1 NE Ad.
1142 wedgetail 2 E 1H, 1DK phase
1144 " 1 NE H phase
1158 Shear-Pet. 1 W Pterodroma? uniform LIGHT GRAY ABOVE
1200 BFA 2 haly count. albatross-like flights
1205 W-Tail 1 N light ph.
1211 Sooty T. 1 E ad.
1217 Bulwers 1 SE
1218 RTA 1 E above ship
1226 W-Tail 1 E light
1226 Fairy T. 1 E
1228 Bulwers 1 E
1230 " 2 NE
1230 Fairy T 1 E
1231 Bulwer's 1 E
1235 " 2 following ship