ATF/SIC 4, Lipan, February-April 1964
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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.