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Horsland Is.
Location 0.46N; 176-38W - 0-35.5; 176-57W H.F. 55
Observer Crossin et al. Date 16 Aug 66 Time 0815 to 1835-
Weather wind ca. (8 knots), Miles 106.0 Hours 10 hrs. 40 min.
sea rough.
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 1
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 8
Bulwer's Petrel 2
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2
White-tailed Tropicbird 2
Blue-faced Booby 10
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird 1 1 call.
Lesser Frigatebird 1 1 call.
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 258 2 call.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern Storm-Pet > 6
Fairy Tern Shear-Pet = 12
Pomarine Jaeger Tern = 258
Pterodroma externa 1 Tropicbird = 4
White-throated SP. 1 13 booby = 10
White-vumped SP. 5 Frigate = 104
Frigate g. 102 Shorebird = 1
Wandering Tattler 1 call.
Total Birds 395
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 10 (325)
Total Species 13
Feeding Flocks = 4 (2.35)
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