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Location LISIANSKI ISLAND, PACIFIC OCEAN
Observer K.C. BALCOMB
Date 16-20 JUNG Time to
Weather LIGHT TO STRONG EAST & SOUTHEAST WINDS WITH OCCASIONAL
RAIN
ALL NUMBERS CALCULATED EXCEPT AS
NOTED
SPECIES
Abundance
Breeding
Remarks
#10
#100
#1,000
#10,000
Nests
Eggs
Young
Laysan Albatross
1
2,000 LOCALS
Black-footed Albatross
1
2,000 LOCALS
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
20
30% NESTING , INCREASING
Christmas I. Shearwater
0
Audubon's Shearwater
0
Bonin I. Petrel
5
Phoenix I. Petrel
0
Bulwer's Petrel
0
Sooty Petrel
0
Red-tailed Tropicbird
1
White-tailed Tropicbird
0
Masked Booby
2
50
Brown Booby
1
Red-footed Booby
5
Great Frigatebird
3
Golden Plover
6-8
ACTUAL COUNT 56
Ruddy Turnstone
12
ACTUAL COUNT 119
Wandering Tattler
2
ACTUAL COUNT 15
Sanderling
0
Bristle-thighed Curlew
5
ACTUAL COUNT 28
Sooty Tern
100
80% NESTING
Gray-backed Tern
15
VERY FEW LATE CHICKS
Brown-winged Tern
0
Common Noddy
25
830
Hawaiian Noddy
5
100
5
Blue-gray Noddy
0
Fairy Tern
2
BLACK BELLY PLOVER
ACTUAL COUNT 1
SEPARATE REPORT FOR SEALS.