SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG — E DATE 11 Jan 65 Pg.# 1 N W S E time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 0642 begin observations 0655 WedgeTail 1 0728 bird up 1 0745 WTTB 1 0833 Leach's Petrel 1 0915 WEDGE TIPIL SHEARWATER 1 light, phaet, youngbird 1000 WedgeTail 1 light, probably young 1135 " " 5- all young birds, flying fast & forth together past off starboard. ca 100' not feeding, flew off to West 1210 Sooty Tern 10 W 100' 1215 " " 2 SW 35' 1326 Sooty Tern 17 SE 1327 Fairy Tern 1 travelling 1443 WEDGE TAIL 1 Southern Dark Phase 1519 WHITE-TAILED TROPKBIRD 1 -E- sitting on water, got up and flew low to the East long deck ractrices but back withheld of black marriggs. 1600 Sooty Tern 2 E 1610 Sooty Tern 175 ±25 Feeding Fairy Tern shear/petrel 10r Feeding 1645 Sooty Tern 40 Feeding 1646 Leach's Petrel 1 35 1658 Sooty Tern 35 Feeding 1707 Leach's Petrel 1 1720 Flock Terns 100 ± 20 Probably Sooty Terns - white below Feeding so far out on horizon that they folds in and out of view. Big Shear also o r petrels below them cannot be seen 1720 Pterodroma 1 1730 Fairy Tern 1 Flock 1745 Sooty Tern WedgeTail J.F. Petel W.N. Petel 55 9 E Feeding Observation concluded Kermader P.I. Wright 1805