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N
W
NWS
DATE 4 July 64
Pg.# 2
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
JFP
BWP
BLE
BWP
DMP
0953 Dark-napped P 1 N new plumage
0955 Bonin Is Petrel 1 S molting
0958 Tripiclinidae 1 N
1010 Bonin Is Petrel 1 N new plumage
1612 Bonin Is P. 1 SW
1017 Wedgetail S. 1 S light
Bonin Is P. 1 S
1022 Shear/petrel 1 E
1041 Shear/petrel 1
1050 White-tailed
Tropicbird 1
Bonin Is P. 1 NE
1105
1123 Wedgetail 1 W light
1124 Shear-Petrel 1 SW
1126 Sooty Tern 1A SW
Wedgetails 1B SW
Bonin Is P. 2 SW
1135 Wedgetail 1 S Light
1140 Wedgetail 1 S Dark. Very close
1145 Red-tailed Tropic
Bird 1 S
1150 Bonin Is P. 2 SE
1155 S. tern Petrel 1 W
1250 Bonin Is P. 1 NE new plumage
1420 Sooty Tern 2 SE
1423 Wedgetail 1 NE Light
1442 Wedgetail 2 W Light
1450 Wedgetail S 2 NE Light
1454 Wedgetail S 1 W Light
1456 Wedgetail S 2 S Light
1458 Wedgetail S 4 W
Light. Sitting in water eating. Ship passed within 30 ft of them before this flew, then they returned to same spot. One of them had something in its bill looked like a part of a squid?
1505 Wedgetail 1 SE Light
1507 Wedgetail 2 W Light. Sitting on water, others kept flying low and dipping but and kill in water
1511 Wedgetail 1 W Light