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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