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Location 08°36'N; 173°43'W — 10°36'N; 172°31'W
Observer Crossin, Clapp, Blackman Date 20 July 1968 Time 0724 to 1954
Weather Rain squalls all day. Miles 137 Hours 1230 @11K
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater -8 all in dark phase
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 7
White-necked Petrel 2
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 9
Bulwer's Petrel 2
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 1
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Phaethon aterna 2 Shear-Pet=31
Pterodroma g. 1 Tern = 1
Total Birds 32
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 0
Total Species 5
all Northern Grid
Location 12°29'N; 171°35'W — 14°29'N; 170°36'W
Observer Crossin, Clapp, Blackman Date 21 July Time 0705 to 1954
Weather Rain squalls. Miles 130 Hours 12-43
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 5 4 dark, 1 light gull.
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 8
White-necked Petrel 3
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 12
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 17 1 min.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 1
Pomarine Jaeger
JF/WN Petrel 2
Pterodroma g. 4
Total Birds 53
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 1 (17) Feeding
Total Species 6