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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E
DATE 14/May65
Pg.#
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0600 begin observations
0621 Sooty Tern 3 E
0622 Sooty Tern 5
Frigate 1 N
0630 Sooty Shear 1 NW
0640 Shear/Petrel 1
0755 Sooty Tern 1 N
0800 Sooty Tern 1 N
0808 Shear/Petrel 1
0822 Wedge-tail ? 1
0823 RTTB 1
0824 Cood's P. 2 -
0830 Sooty Shear? 1 -
0854 Turd spp. 1
0902 Shear/Petrel 1 NE
0912 Sooty Tern 2 NE
0922 Cood's Petrel 3 NW
1048 Cood's Petrel 4 NW
1100 Cood's Petrel 1
1112 Jaeger sp. 1
1120 WTTB 1
1215 Sooty Tern 2 E
1239 Sooty Shear 2
1240 Cood's P. 1
1259 Shear/Petrel 1
1300 Shear/Petrel 1
1304 WTTB 1
1337 Sooty Shear 1 N
1411 Sooty Shear 1 NW
1419 Sooty Shear 1 NW
1428 Sooty Shear 1 NW
1450 RTTB 1 N
1618 Bulwer's P. 1 N
1648 Cood's Petrel 2 NW
1715 WNP 1
1755 Shear/Petrel 1 SW
1757 Shear/Petrel 1 SW
1825 Cood's Petrel 1 SW
1829 Bulwer's P. 1 N
1844 Shear/Petrel 1
1855 end observations
scattering
seen by watch.
light below, dark above, small, distant
seen by Howard
almost no black or underwing edges
seen by Howard
dark above, light below, distant
small type - white headed look - may account
for sightings of Shear/Petrel x seen last spring.
I had white edged/long outer retrices
1300 15-20 smallish porpoises
flushed
sat on water
probably Cood's P
seen by Suyeki
white underparts - seen by Pete