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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E
DATE 18 Apr 65 Easter
Pg.#
N
W E
S
time species # dir. hgt. remarks
loc.
0530 BFA
rabbit
1
seen by watch
large, white seen by watch
0557 begin observation
sun apparently already up
0615 Wedgetail
2 SW
light
0622 Bulwer's Pet.
1
0630 Sooty Terns
5 W 3
traveling
Wedgetails
2
0631 Shear/Petrel
1
light
distant
0633 Pom. Jaeger
1 W
light
0635 Sooty Tern
1 E
dist.
0635 Wedgetail (?)
2
dist.
0638 Tern
1
Termite sees & identifies, I don't.
0648 Mottled Petrel
1
seen by watch
0652 Bulwer's Petrel
1
I saw this one well
0745 Sooty Shearw.
1 BE
0758 Mottled Petrel
1
0815 Sooty Tern
1
0815 Shear/Petrel
1
0816 Newell's S
1
0816 Sooty Tern
1
0817 Shear/Petrel
1
0830 Wedgetail
1 NW
light
0845 Shear/Petrel
1
0915 Wedgetail
1
light
0925 Jaegerap
1
Probably Longtailed - nice light phase with,
Grey back & wings, white neck & black cap.
Tail medium long, slender central rectrices
protruding 4"+ all white underparts
flushed from water.
0932 Tern sp
1 alluded
0945 Leach's St. Pet.
1 N
1013 Leach's St. Pet.
2 Follow
Z now
1024 Blackfoot Alb.
1
1100 Blackfoot Alb.
2
1101 Wedgetail
1 N
1116 Sooty Shearw.
1 NNE
1140 Layson Albatross
1 E
1230 SS
4 N
1258 SS
1 N
1315 2 BFA + 1 Layman
1330 1 BFA caught & banded #787-60943
23°30'N 154°00'W
fully feathered broad petrel
completely black rump.
1345 3 BFA now sitting near ship
1426 Phalarope
1 S?
1515 Shear/Petrel
1
distant
1612 Mottled P.
1 N
very close - maybe flushed