BCF observation check-lists April 1965

(21°04'N 7 157°45'W at 1,000) Location 21°19'N 7 157°58'W to 20°35'N 7 157°15'W Observer Date 12 May 1965 Time 1500 to 1857 Weather 60 miles Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross / Wedge-tailed Shearwater / 10/ 2 within dolphins 16.4 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 20 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby / Red-footed Booby 60 Great Frigatebird / Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 110 18.3 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 233 Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Lately Shearwater 8 Arctic Tern 2 Tern 318 143.2 Shearwater-Petrel 3 Gull 1 Total birds = 859

(17044'N 7 156 55'w at 1208) Location 18°48'N 7 152°00'w to 16°53'N 7 156°59'w Observer Date 13may, 1965 Time 0553 to 1852 Weather 13.0 Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young SPECIES Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 19 all light phase 1.6 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 14 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 10 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 230 17.7 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 1 Sooty Shearwater 81 Newell Shearwater 8 Leach's Storm Petrel 10 Pomarine Jaeger 1 Small Plover 1 29.8 Shearwater-Red 8 Breed 3 Total birds - 387

Location 15°08'W to 15°02'W to 12°59'W to 15°03'W Observer Date 14 May 1965 Time 0559 to 1846 Weather 130 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 1 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 14 1.1 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0.5 Soot Shearwater (whit neePetel) Feeld's Horn Petrel 1 1 1 Frogger Small Pterodroma Shearwater - Petrel 7 Bird 1 Total birds = 58

(11°03'N - 15°56'W at 1200) Location 11°29'W - 15°56'W to 10°29'W - 15°52'W Observer Date 15 May 1965 Time 0555 to 1835 Weather 12.7 131 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 + Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 dophine 0.2 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 6 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0.0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0.6 Soft Shearwater 8 Leach's Storm Petrel 3 Pomarine Jaeger 1 Tern 1 Tropicbird 1 Large Shearwater 2 Small Shearwater 42 Shearwater - adult 10 Total birds = 76

(11°36'N - 15°55'S) at (206) Location 10°44'N - 153°55'W to 12°54'W - 15°4'03'W Observer Date 16 May 1965 Time 0554 to 1835 Weather 130 miles 12.7 Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks SPECIES Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater / light phase 0.1 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel L/ Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby / Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 5 0.4 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0.8 Sooty Shearwater mottled Petrel Arctic Tern / Tropicbird 1 Small Shearwater 37 5.7 Large Shearwater 1 Shearwater-Petrel Bird 1 10 Total Birds = 73

15°37'N to 15°40'N (w of 1200) Location 14°38'W to 15°3°59'W to 16°44'W to 15°3°57'W Observer Date 17 May 1965 Time 0548 to 1840 Weather 134 mi. Abundance Breeding Species 1-10 10-100 100-1000 >1000 Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2-8 /chick phren 2, 2 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 3 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 1 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0, 0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0, 2 Sooty Shearwater 2 Small Petrel 3 3, 5 Large Petrel 1 Shearwater-Petrel 5 Total birds = 45

(19°38'w 154°03'w of 1200) Location 18°37'w to 15°40'3"w to 20°45'w to 15°4'03'w Observer Date 18 May 1965 Time 05:42 to 18:47 Weather 13,1 132 miles. SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 30 all light phase 2.3 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 11 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 4 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 574 43.8 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 5 2.1 Forty Shearwater 28 Scotch Storm Petrel 2 Trigged 2 Long-billed 3 Shearwater Petrel 36 Total birds = 699

(23°28'W to 153°41'W of 1200) Location 22°40'N 153°51'W to 23°27'N 152°23'W Observer Date 19 May 1965 Time 0530 to 1847 Weather 13.2 136 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 23 1 dark plumage 1.7 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 6 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 5 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 476 36.1 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 1 Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 5 1.0 Lusty Shearwater, Newell's Shearwater 11 13 Tropicbird 1 401.2 Shearwater, Petrel 38 Bird 2 Total birds = 584

(22°01'N 7 151°00'W at 1200) Location 23°03'N 7 151°03'W to 28°54'N 7 151°02'W Observer Date 20 May 1965 Time 0121 to 1857 Weather 129 miles 13.3 SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater / 0.1 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 3 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 8 0.6 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 2.2 Scott Shearwater 29 Seabird Humdred 1 Arctic Tern 1 Newell's Shearwater 1 3.5 total birds = 46

(18°03'w > 150°56'w of 1200) Location 19°11'w > 150°56'w to 17°18'w > 151°00'w Observer Date 21 may 1965 Time 0528 to 1830 Weather 13.0 Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks SPECIES Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 6 all lightphor 0.2 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 1 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0.0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0.8 Scott Shearwater 11 Kennerley Petrel 1 et. Ph. Fuechb Sham Petrel 2 Pomarine Jaeger 2 2.0 Jaeger Shearwater Petrel 1 Total birds = 26

Location 15°22'N → 150°58'W to 13°11'W → 15°00'W Observer Date 22 May 1965 Time 0533 to 1825 Weather 12.9 Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks SPECIES Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 3 lightphase 0.2 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 3 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 4 0.3 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0.3 Sooty Shearwater 4 White-eyed Tern 1 Jacob's Heron Petrel 3 Shin 1 Tropicbird 1 Tern 2 Small Stercorarius 2 3.6 Large Stercorarius 14 Shearwater - Adult 6 Total Birds = 96

(11017'W> 158034'W of (TBD) Location 11°32'N 715/602'W to 10°49'N 7 149°35'W Observer Date 23 May 1965 Time 0539 to 1815 Weather 95 mile 12.6 SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 16 13 dark phase 1.3 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 1 Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 8 0.6 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 1 White-necked Petrel 3 Newell's Shearwater 8 Laysan Shearwater 3 Big-tailed Gull 1 Small Pterodroma 12 8.4 Large Pterodroma 31 Shearwater-Petrel 18 Bird 1 total birds = 106

(11°05'N 7 147°58'W at head) Location 10°01'N 7 148°01'W to 11°59'N 7 147°55'W Observer Date 24 May 1965 Time 0530 to 1811 Weather 12.7 118 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 33 all dark Phase 2.6 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 5 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 3 Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0.0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern White noddy? 3 [illegible] 6 [illegible] Storm Petrel 4 Small Pterodroma 32 15.2 Large Pterodroma 88 Shearwater-? Petrel 17 total birds = 193

(140 46'N to 147 59'W at 1200) Location 13°46'N to 147°57'W to 15°53'N to 147°58'W Observer Date 15 May 1965 Time 0830 to 1818 Weather 12.8 miles 12.9 SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 5 1 duck, 4 light plum 8.4 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0,0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern White-necked 2 Small Shearwater 1 3.1 Large Shearwater 25 Shearwater 5 Total birds = 46

(18°03'N > 147°55'W at 1200) Location 17°29'N 7148°00'W to 19°08'N 7148°01'W Observer Date 26 May 1965 Time 0518 to 1823 Weather 99 mile SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 6 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 5 0.4 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Sooty Shearwater White-necked Pelicil 5 4 Small Shearwater 2 12.7 Large Shearwater 39 104 total birds = 167

(22°04'N 7 148°01'W at 1200) Location 20°57'N 7 148°05'W to 23°21'N 7 148°06'W Observer Date 27 May 1965 Time 0511 to 1831 Weather 13,3 144 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 0,0 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 1 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0,0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0,2 Sooty Shearwater 3 Stom Relit 1 Total Grid = 6

(26°18'N > 148°00'W of 1200) Location 25°02'N > 147°55'W to 26°08'N > 148°06'W Observer Date 28 may, 1965 Time 0502 to 1842. Weather 13/ mile 13.7 SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross 2 Wedge-tailed Shearwater Christmas I. Shearwater 0.0 Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0.0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 6.1 Sooty Shearwater 2 (rewell Shearwater) 6 Shearwater-Islet 1 Total breeds = 11

(24°57'W > 151°18'W @ 1200) Location 25°01'N 150°41'W to 25°02'N 152°48'W Observer Date 9 may 1965 Time 0512 to 0856 Weather 13.7 117 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater / 0.1 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel / Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 2 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler / Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 0.0 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 0.2 Foot Shearwater 3 24,84 [illegible] Petrel 1 [illegible] Petrel 1 [illegible] 1 Large Heron 2 1.2 Total birds = 16

(24°59'N 7 156°13'W @ 1200) Location 24°58'N 7 156°44'W to 24°24'N 7 156°59'W Observer Date 30 May 1965 Time 0529 to 1900 Weather 154 miles SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 119 1 clow 8 8 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 4 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 3 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 785 58.1 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 2 Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Newell Shearwater 7 0.1 Soty Shearwater 3 2 Any foot furgan Arctic Tern 1. Bent Stern Paul Sterne Large Shearwater 49 total birds = 987

(21°55'N 157°00'W at 1000) Location 22°35'N 156°59'W to 21°15'N 157°49'W Observer Date 3/1/May 1965 Time 0531 to 1520 Weather 9.8 104 miles Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 563 all light plum 67.4 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 12 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby 4 Red-footed Booby 54 Great Frigatebird 18 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 2801 285.8 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 1280 Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern 1 Sooty Shearwater 1 Newell Shearwater 1 Feaches from Petrel 1 Term 1 Bird 1 Shear at Sltw 322 Total birds = 4761