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FIRST DAY OUT OF S.GRID
Location 03-30N; 179-38W — 05-03N; 173-18W
Observer CROSSIN ET.AL. Date 20 Aug. 1966 Time 0635 to 1844
Weather OVERCAST; WIND 9-15 KNOTS Miles 123.0 Hours 12 hrs. 9 min.
SEA- REL. CALM 729 min.
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Layson Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 88 1 light phase rest dark
Sooty Shearwater }2
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel } (8) 16 3 JFP COLL
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel 1
Phoenix Island Petrel 6 2 Phoenix I.P. coll.
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 1
Bulwer's Petrel
WILSON'S STORM PETREL 6
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby 1
Red-footed Booby 1
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sooty Tern 84
Gray-backed Tern STORM PET = 7
Common Noddy Tern SHEAR PET = 122
Fairy Tern TERN = 84
Pomarine Jaeger TROPICBIRD = 1
PALE-FOOTED SHRUTA. 1 GOOBY = 2
PIERODROMA SP. 2 FRIGATE = 0
STORM PETREL SP. 1 STORMBIRD = 4
SHEAR/PET 3
Total Birds = 220
Total Sightings
Total Flocks = 5 (169)
Total Species = 14
FEEDING FLOCKS = 3 (142)
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