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Location Howland Island → 0-16 S, 135-38 W HE 88
Observer Crossin et al. Date 15 Aug. 1966 Time 0800 to 1850
Weather wind ca. 20 knt./ sea Miles total Hours 10 hrs. 50 min.
rough. 91 (650 min)
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 3
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby 47
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 22
Great Frigatebird 3
Lesser Frigatebird 37
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 540 red. coll.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Cook's Petrel 2 Storm Petrel = 2
Pterodroma sp. 5 Shear - Pet = 11
White-rumped S.P. 2 Tern = 540
Frigate sp. 53 Tropicbird = 1
Booby = 69
Frigate = 93
Total Birds 716
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 16 (634)
Total Species 10
Feeding Flocks = 10 (56%)
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