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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
At Sea Observations - March 10
Time Number Direction Species and Remarks
0930 Left Pago Pago
0930 1 Common Noddy
0930 1 Fairy Tern
0935 1 Water very calm, hardly a wind ripple on (Brown Booby)
its surface, When water is like this the
brown booby fly very low over the water
2-5 feet, with a heavy laborious flight.
0941 5 Common Noddy
0941 1 Fairy Tern
0944 1 Common Noddy
0950 1 Fairy Tern
0952 1 Common Noddy
0952 2 Brown Booby
0952 1 Shearwater sp.?
0953 1 Fairy Tern - actively feeding at surface
0953 5 Common Noddy - actively feeding at surface
0953 20 Flock
0956 1 Common Noddy
0959 1 Shearwater sp.
0959 3 Common Noddy
0959 1 Fairy Tern
1003 1 Shearwater sp.
1012 3 NE Common Noddy
1012 6 NE Brown Booby
1015 12 NE Common Noddy
1020 1 NE Shearwater sp.
1020 3 Wedgetail
1023 8 Red-footed Booby
1024 1 Common Noddy
1024 1 Fairy Tern
1030 3 E Brown Booby
1030 1 Shearwater sp.
1033 1 W Fairy Tern
1035 1 E Common Noddy
1045 1 W W.T. Tropic Bird
1055 2 E Brown Booby
1055 1 E Fairy Tern
1102 1 W.T. Tropic Bird sitting in water.
1102 2 Shearwater sp.?
1105 3 NE W.T. Tropicbird
1105 2 NE Audubon's Shearwater
1142 Flock 6 NE Red-footed Booby
1142 2 NE Fairy Tern
1145 15 NE Tern sp?
1145 2 N Fairy Tern
1145 1 NE Shea rwater sp?
1147 Flock 70 Red-footed Booby- at least 2 northern phase.