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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
DATE 21 Apr 65
Pg.#
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0535 begin observations
0552 Wedgetail 2 NW
0630 Sooty Shear 1 NW
0637 shear/petrel 1 NW
0640 Sooty Shear 1 NW
0658 Newell's S. 1 NW
0659 Arctic Tern 1 N
0712 Leach's P 1 N
0714 Leach's P 2 NW
0716 Wedgetail 2
0725 Wedgetail 1
0735 Leach's P 1
0745 tern sp? 1
0747 Juan Fernande Petrel 1 S
0755 Sooty Tern 1 NW
0802 shear/petrel 2
0810 Shear/Petrel 1 N
0811 Sooty Tern 1 N
0834 Newell's Shearw. 2 NWW
0837 Sooty Tern 14 3 S
0838 Sooty Tern 1 N
0843 Sooty Tern 1 W
0902 Shear/Petrel 1 NW
0950 Wedgetail 1 W
0958 Sooty Tern 1 NW
1026 Sooty Tern 1
1035 Sooty Tern 1
1232 Sooty Tern 1
1420 Sooty Shear 1 NW
1650 Shear/Petrel 1 NW
1658 Sooty Shearw. 2 NW
1702 Sooty Tern 4 OW
1703 Pomarine Jaeger 1 N
1721 Leach's St. Pet. 1 on water
1732 Shear/Petrel 1
1734 Newell's. 1
1736 Bulwer's Petrel 1
1743 Wedgetail 1
1753 shear/petrel 2
1918 shear/petrel 2
light
- white underparts - Wedgetail sized
beard bill, light grey mantle black cap
light
light
seen by watch - might have been Arctic Tern
Feeding Flock
far distant probably Sooty Shear
May have been land phase Kennebec P.
distant 1820/ Sooty Tern, 1822 end observations