Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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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%) SI-MNH-11-1-66