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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)