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DATE 25 June 64
Pg.# 1
SE SW
E W
NE NW
N
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0537 begin observation
0546 Bonin's P 1 N
0604 Dark-rumped P 1 W
0612 Sooty Tern
Dark-rumped or Bonin's?
Shear/petrel 20t5 30t5 W
New plumage? from a distance it showed up very white
Feeding flock - The birds were a long ways out, but they were
all white underneath with the more clear cut distinction
between white and dark than is shown on a wedge tail,
also they had steeper and steeper arcs and banks.
0621 Hare-crested Storm P 1 NW
0635 Wedgetail 1 W
Light
Seen by watch
0646 Shearwater - Petrel 2 S
0658 Shearwater - Petrel 1 SW
0715 Shearwater - Petrel 5 SW
Feeding flock, either Bonin's P, or Dark-rumped Petrel
0722 Dark-rumped P 1 W
0810 Petrel sp 3
0820 petrel sp 1
Seen by watch
0843 petrel/shear 1 S
0846 Dark-rumped P 1 N
0847 petrel sp 1
0848 White-naped P 1 N
Molting
0850 White-naped P 1 N
0853 Bonin's P 1 W
0855 petrel sp 1
0906 Nowell's S 1 W
0902 Dark-rumped P 1
Molting
0910 Petrel sp. 2 W
0911 White-naped P 1 NW
Molting
0913 petrel sp 1 NW
0915 shear/petrel 1 SW
0918 Red-tailed T.D. 1 S
0929 Sooty Shear 1 NW
Silver brings sea
0931 Petrel sp 1 NW
DRP in WNP
0934 White-naped P 2 S
Molting
0955 Dark-rumped P 3 SW
Wedge tail 1 S
1006 Petrel - Shearwater 1 NW
1012 Bulwer's Petrel 1 NW
1028 Wedgetail 1 S
Light