Bulmer, Walter, Jr., 1966-1967
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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)