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2nd day in Grid
Location Howland to 1-04N; 178-05W
Observer Date 13 July 1966 Time 0800 to 1903
Weather Miles Hours 11hrs 03min
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 39 all dark 3 call.
Sooty Shearwater 3 1 prob. S.b.
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Kermodec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel/Tahitian 1
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 1
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel 3
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby 51 3 blue Streamers
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 7
Great Frigatebird 2
Lesser Frigatebird 17
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 485 4 call. 1 banded 793-48145 How.feb.65
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern 1 Storm Petrel = 3
Fairy Tern Shear-Pet = 44
Pomarine Jaeger Tern = 542
Pterodroma sp 2 Tropicbird = 1
frigate sp. 60 Booby = 58
Shorebird sp 2 Frigatebird = 79
Tern sp. 56 sharebird = 2
Total Birds 729
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 11 (624)
Total Species 13
ST-MNH-11-1-66 feeding flocks = 6(548)