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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