Balcomb, Kenneth C., 1966
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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.