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At Sea Observations March 12, 1964
Wind: E 15-20mph. Ship course NNE Clouds: cumulus 2/10
Sea - moderate, small whitecaps
# Birds Direction Time Species + Remarks
— — 0730 start observation.
2 ? 0810 Sooty Terns (very far out)
14 N 0812 Sooty Terns
1 N 0812 W.T. Shear
1 N 0830 Bulweria petrel
10 W 1210 feeding flork - 10 shearwaters - prob. W.T.
20 W 1210 feeding flork - Sooty Tern.
2 SW 1250 Fairy Tern
2 NE 1250 Molly Tern (prob. Hawaiian)
1 NW 1310 Storm petrel sp? (had white patch at base of tail on upper side of bird but couldn't see it if it continued around) prob. Harcourts Sooty Tern
3 NE 1315
2 — 1330 small fairy flork Fairy Tern
5 — 1330 " " Sooty Tern
— — 1810 search.