At Sea Observations - U.S.S. Tawakoni - Raw Data - Oct. 8, 1963
Pacific Ocean 6 days out of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
Observers: Sibley, Clapp, Bratley, Huber.
0625 Observations begun.
0632 Flock
Sooty Terns 16
0633 Bird sp.? 1
0637 Wedgetail 1
0705 Bulwer's Petrel 2
0735 Sooty Tern 12 Flying low and steadily across bow.
0736 Shearwater sp.? 2 Light below but back appeared lighter than is true of W.T.
0740 Shearwater sp.? 1
0804 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Possibly Sooty - dark bird with white silvery wing linings.
0815 Shearwater sp.? 1
0825 Red-footed Booby 1
0835 Tropic birds 2 At long range.
0837 Pet. Shearwater sp.? 1 Light above and white below.
0840 Flock 15 * On horizon, well beyond limits of range of identification.
0845 Flock
Sooty Tern 15 * At long range, closer than above, actively feeding,
Shearwater sp.? 7 * Dark above and below.
0850 Shearwater sp.? 1 Dark above, below. with light wing linings. Poss. Sooty Shearwater
0850 Flock
Shearwater 13 Dark above, dark below, dark wing linings. Possibly C.I.
0955. Flock
Sooty Tern 13 *
Shearwaters 8 *' Prob. C.I.
Tropicbird 1
0907 Shearwater sp.? 1 Dark above, below.
Petrel sp? 1 Dark above, below, size of Bulwer's, with a white rump. Prob. castro (Oceanodroma)
0912 Flock
Anous stolidus 8 *
Sooty Tern 50 *'
Shearwaters 15 *
R.F. Booby 1
0932 Shearwaters 10
0936 Shearwater sp.? 1
0937 R.T. Tropic Bird 1
0940 Terns species 37 Sooties and/or noddies.
0943 Flock 10 * Terns out of range of identification
0950 Flock
0950 Flock
Sooty Tern 27
0951 Red F. Booby 1.