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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE 29 Apr 65
Pg. # 1
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0545 begin observatio
0632 Leach's P 1 N
0636 Sooty Shear 1 N
0642 Dead Pump P. 1 N
0648 Sooty Shear 1 N
0658 Sooty Shear 1 NW
0715 Sooty Shear 1 NW
0730 Sooty Shear 1 NW
0740 Arctic Tern 3 N
0745 Leach's P 1 N
0750 BFA 1 [illegible]
0753 Arctic Tern 2 N
0819 Leach's St. Pet. 1 NE
0830 Sooty (?) Tern 1 S
0830 Shear/Petrel 1 W
0907 Leach's St. Pet. 2
0945 LSP 4
1011 Leach's P 2 NW
1100 Leach's P 1
1115 RTTB 1 2 NW
1120 Leach's P 1 W
1123 Phalarope 1 N
1143 Leach's P 1 NW
1236 LSP 1
1313 Sooty Shear 1 NW
1315 Shear/Petrel 1 W
1319 Arctic (?) Tern 1 N
1328 LSP 2
1330 LSP 2 N
1359 LSP 1 N
1414 Sooty Shear 3 NW
1416 Leach's P 1 NW
1434 Leach's P 1 NW
1447 Sooty Shear 3 NW
1455 Shear/Petrel 1 SSE
1641 Frigate bird 1
1645 Bird 1
1647 LSP 4 N
1707 Sooty Shear. 3 NW
1712 LSP 2 N
1737 LSP 1 N
1755 Sooty Shear 1 N
gorgeous - came by very close + doubled back
for second look. Thick dark underwing edges
+ dark back
16/10
— distant
messing around our stern as we're stopped for Hydro Sta.
1000 | BFA
pink-flushed 1145 1BFA
getting blown something fierce
dist. 1330 1 BFA stopped for paper airplane
I flew at him
1530 Albatross back with us
he's shuffling primaries -
probably 5, 2 or 3 on each side
flaps more than wind calls for.
1630 Either this a new 'fross or swift molter
All primaries seem p + a.f. (white rump)
Ternite says jaeger
but circling high when