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Location 19-40N; 159-27W → 17-54N; 160-53W
Observer Date 6 July 1966 Time 0505 to 1823
Weather Squalls, swells 6'
Miles Hours 13hrs. 18min
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 40 3 dark phase
Sooty Shearwater 3 2 dark underwing-prob. S.b.
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater 1
Newell's Shearwater 12
Juan Fernandez Petrel 17
White-necked Petrel 5
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel 1
Black-winged Petrel 5
Bulwer's Petrel 1
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 5
White-tailed Tropicbird 7
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 87
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern 4
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Dark-rumped Petrel 3 Shear-Pet=119
Pterodroma hypolouca 12 Tern = 91
Pterodroma sp. 11 Tropicbird=14
Shear-Pet 8 Total Birds 224
Tropicbird sp 2 Total Sightings
Total Flocks 3(80)
Total Species 12
feeding flocks 2(71)
ST-MNH-11-1-66