BCF, Cromwell, July-August 1964
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DATE 21 july 64 Pg.# 2 SE S SW E NE N NW N time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 1316 [illegible] Shear/petrel X 1 SW All dark underwings except for narrow (very narrow) white strip in middle of wing. No dark breast band, no black on head or back that could be seen. Flys like a cross between Bonin's Parsa D.R. Petrel. About the size of a D.R. but a little smaller. Body was white. 1330 Wedgetail 2 SW 1335 Dark R.P. Wedgetail 2 SE Collected by Husted # 0509 1.05lbs. Parks. 1342 Sooty Terns 2 S 1416 D.R. Petrel 1 SE 75±10 1450 Sooty Tern Wedgetail Sooty Petrel Dark-rumped 1 E 1451 Dark-rumped 1 E Frigate bird Bourke's P 1 with feeding flock 1630 [illegible] Bonin's P 1 S Very small, white underwings, flies like Bonin's, may have been a small Bonin's H. Dark @? light? Travelling 1636 Wedgetail 3 SW D.R. Petrel 2 Sooty Terns 3 1640 Bonin's P 1 SE Sitting on water 1644 B.T. Tripeloid 1 SE sitting on water 1735 Red-tiled Tropic 1 1841 Dardo-trumpet P 2 NW 1844 Bonin's P 1 W 1850 Shear/petrel 1 W 1900 Shear/petrel 1 S 1916 end observations