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DATE 11 Apr 65
Pg.# 2
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
1029 Storm petrel 1
1030 Wedgetail 1
1031 Sooty Shear 1
1035 Sooty Shear 1
1038 Sooty Shear 1
1045 Sooty Shear 1
1049 Wedgetail 1
1050 Sooty Shear 1
1053 Sooty Tern 1
1054 bird up 1
1055 Sooty Shear 2
1057 Sooty Tern 10
Noddy Tern 30
Blue-grey Noddy? 2
R.F.B. (Wedgetail?) 1/3
1059 Sooty Shear 1
1102 Sooty Shear 1
1105 Sooty Shear 4
1107 Bulwer's P. 1
1113 Sooty Shear 1
1120 "" 3
1123 "" 1
1126 Sooty Tern 3
Common Noddy 7
Wedgetail 5
1130 Redfoot (?) Booby 2
1132 Sooty Shear 2
1135 Sharrowater (?) 1
1137 Wedgetail 1
1139 "" 1
1140 Redfoot Booby 1 5
1141 Sooty Shear 2
1145 WT (?) Tropicbird 1
1148 Wedgetail 1
1150 Shearwater? 1
1205 Sooty Shear 1
1217 Wedgetail 2
1220 "" 1
1224 Sooty Shear 2
1229 Sooty Shear? 1
1231 (Com. Noddy) 1
in the sun
fired at once
might have been Sula or gull - bolder greyish
instead of brownish, lower water, frequent flaps
+ short tail, larger than Bw. juega
feeding
adult
25 - 10
feeding Flock, watch reports a fairy tern too
Ad.
Like Wedgetail in size, shape, flight but light gray on top
Ad.
Dark phase
Sooty Shear water id. by capt.
N 50'