Bulmer, Walter, Jr., 1966-1967
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Location 9-58N; 168-04W — 8-20N; 169-43W Observer Date 9 July 1966 Time 0851 to 1840 Weather Clear, mod. rough seas Miles Hours 12hrs. 49min SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 561 6 light phase, 555 dark (3 coll.) Sooty Shearwater Slender-billed Shearwater Christmas Island Shearwater Newell's Shearwater 1 Juan Fernandez Petrel 5 White-necked Petrel 1 Kermadec Petrel Phoenix Island Petrel Mottled Petrel Bonin Island Petrel Black-winged Petrel 4 Bulwer's Petrel 1 Leach's Storm Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 3 1 ad coll. White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Blue-faced Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Lesser Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sooty Tern 24 1 min. call. Gray-backed Tern Common Noddy Tern Fairy Tern 3 Pomarine Jaeger Solander's Petrel? 1 shear-lot: 578 Pterodroma sp. 2 Tern = 27 Tropicbird sp. 1 Tropicbird = 5 Shear-Pet. 2 Total Birds 610 Total Sightings Total Flocks 5 (548) Total Species 10 SI-MNH-11-1-66 feeding flocks = 2(529)