Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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2 hrs. 35 min Location Honduras → 21-19N; 15-8-23W Observer Crossin et. al. Date 6 June 1966 Time 1637to 1912 Weather Scattered cloudiness, sea calm Ca. 1 ft swells, mostly low choppiers: Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 90 all light phase Species = 7 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Show Pet = 98 Bonin I. Petrel Tern = 440 Phoenix I. Petrel Booby = 9 Bulwer's Petrel 6 Misc = 450 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby 3 Red-footed Booby 6 Great Frigatebird Golden Plover 1 Ruddy Turnstone Wondering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 281 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Porpoise - 10 Common Noddy 144 -2 = Terns T. truncatus Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Newell's Shear. 1 Shear-Pet 1 Tern & Birds 15 450