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At Sea Observations - U.S.S. Tawakoni - Raw Data - Oct. 7, 1963
Pacific Ocean 5 days out of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
Observers: Sibley, Clapp, Bratley, Huber.
0620 Observations begun
0639 Bird sp. 1
0648 Shearwater sp.? 1 Dark above, below, at very long range.
0742 Pt. sp. Bird sp.? 2 All dark
0800 Pt. sp. 1 All white under wing linings, all white beneath, dusky brown above with black wing tips.
0807 Pt. sp. 1
0832 Bird sp. 1
0847 Bird sp. 1
0848 Pt. sp. 1 With dark edges to underwings
0858 Bird sp. 1
0900 Shearwater sp. 1 Dark above, below.
0902 Pt. sp. 1
0907 Above bird shot floating on water by Sibley and Bratley.
0915 Pt. sp. 2
0925 Wedgetail 1
0940 W.T. Tropic bird 1
0959 Pt. sp. 1
1022 Puffinus sp. 4 3 dark, 1 light, sitting on water. shot (Bratley)
1025 Ruddy Turnstone 1
1107 Bulwer's Petrel 1 all dark
1123 Shearwater sp? 1 all dark
1136 Shearwater sp? 1 all dark
1253 Bulwer's Petrel 1
Sooty Tern 1 all dark
1330 Shearwater sp.? 1
1335 Bulwer's Petrel 2
1456 Shearwater sp.? 2
1514 Wedgetail ? 1
1515 Sooty Tern (Flock) 15
Wedgetail 10
1530 Bird sp.? 2
1531 Bonin Island P.? 1
1545 Flock
Sooty Tern 125
Petrels 15
several species.
1555 Petrel sp? 1
1600 Tropicbird sp.? 1
1602 Shearwater sp.? 1
1608 C.I. Shearwater 1 ident. by FCS
1622 Shearwater sp.? 3
Pterodroma sp. 1
1625 Shearwater sp. 1
1632 W.T. Tropic Bird 2
1647 C.I. Shearwater 2 ident. F.C.S.
1708 Pt. sp. 1
1712 Bird sp.? 1
1715 Pt. sp. 1
1732 Bonin Petrel 1