Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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13 hrs. 25 min. Location 84-04N; 166-26W — 23-19N; 164-16W Observer (Crossin et al.) Date 23 June 1966 Time 0515 to 1840 Weather Sea rough, mostly cloudy. Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross 1 Black-footed Albatross 3 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 166 all light. Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel β hypo 3 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 79 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird ) Masked Booby 4 Brown Booby 4 Red-footed Booby 18 Great Frigatebird 40 Golden Plover 1 Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 359 Gray-backed Tern 50 Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 23 Hawaiian Noddy 13 Blue-gray Noddy 8 Fairy Tern 26 Remarks Total Birds = 851 Total Flocks = 14 (417) Feeding Flocks = 4 (333) Species = 18 Albatross = 4 Shear-Pet = 249 Tern = 529 Tropicbird = 2 Booby = 26 Frigate = 40 Shore bird = 1 12 sperm whales 1 porpoise T. truncatus Shear-Pet 1