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p. 3 5 Feb 1963
Feb 5, 1963
Time Locality Species Remarks
0840 2 Sooty Terns PLing NW (Band#30001)
0900 B.F. Alb. Laysan Alb. flew by caught 1 on hook + Line (let go at 0910) (?)
0925 5 Sooty terns white-tailed Tropic bird appear 30' flew by on port side headed NW E
0935 off port
0936 Sooty terns Some dark colored - going W
0945 1 Sooty tern flew off stern
0949 flock app. 20 Sooty terns off starboard, app 300 yds
0949 Laysan Alb. off port, app 300 yds
0952 3+2 Sooty terns off starboard - feeding
0956 Seagull bird past off stern
0959 Laysan off stern, then passed port
1045 B.F. Alb. 8 sitting together on water, now following. no known garbage spoils.
1047 3 Sooties crossed astern
1108 3 Sooties Tropic bird heading Northeast
1128 1 red-tailed directly over ship - heading East
1156 40 terns (?) headed West
1156 2 babies 3 sooty terns diving - with above terns passed on port side, feeding
1207
1250 1 porpoise broke water completely, off port side.
1345 1 oddly turnstone approached from S, sailed ship, headed N,
1400 3 sooty terns passed & port