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Location 16-26Nj/62-13W → 14-43N; 163-44W
Observer Date 7 July 1966 Time 0621 to 1826
Weather Overcast, seas rough 6'swell Miles Hours 13hrs 7min
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 28 12 light, 16 dark phase
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater 1
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 15 2 coll.
White-necked Petrel 2
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 9
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 5
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 45
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 3 Shear-Pet = 64
Pomarine Jaeger Tern = 51
Tropicbird=6
Miss. = 20
Pterodroma Sp 7
Pterodroma hypoleuca 1
Tern Sp. 3
Bird sp 20
Shear-Pet 1 Total Birds 141
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 5(85)
Total Species 8
ST-MNH-11-1-66 feeding flocks 3(59)