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DATE 3 June 64
Pg.# 2
SW
S N
SE NW
E NE
W
N
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
1207 Wedgetail 1 W eight
1208 Frigate 1 200ft adult male
1209 Wedgetail 2 light
1212 Tropicbird Sp 1 300ft circling above frigate
1214 Scotty Term 8 2 minutes travelling
1215 Black-footed A. 1 following 2 ships
1216 Wedgetail 1 W light
1225 Storm Petrel 2
1225 Nightjar 1 200ft or adult
1245 Sooty Tern 1 travelling
1312 Tropicbird 1
1325 Tropicbird 1 Nightjar
1350 Wedgetail 1 NE
1350 Wedgetail 1 S dark
1355 Manx Shearwater 2 S
1430 B-F Albatross 2
1431 Wedgetail 50-60 3 feeding flock
Sooty Tern 8-12 light
1442 Wedgetail 1 W
1454 Manx Shearwater 1 S
1457 Wedgetail S. 2
1458 Red-billed T.B 1
1500 Bulwer's P 1 E adult with long retrices
1506 Bulwer's P 1 S
1535 Sooty Tern 2 W 150ft fixed at but never into altho. Bird shook self
1537 Bulwer's P 1 C soaring then dropped down passed ship inward
1555 Black-footed A. 3 passed under bow 1 minute
1608 Sooty Tern 3 NE
1645 Sooty Tern 80±20 feeding flock
shearwater
petrel 40±20
1630 Sooty Tern 7 small feeding flock
shearwater/
petrel 4 small travelling flock at least 2 minutes
1705 Sooty Tern 8
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