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113 hrs. 24 min
Location 22-52N; 162-47W — 22-17N; 160-48W
Observer Crossin et. al. Date 24 June 1966 Time 0507 to 1831
Weather Sea rough, few squalls.
Abundance Breeding
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Remarks
SPECIES
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1 454 Idavk vestfisher Species = 13
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel Phuza: 2
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel 97
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 6
Great Frigatebird 10
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 398
Gray-backed Tern 15
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy 2
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy 2
Fairy Tern 10
Newell's Shear 120 most right at sunset in large
flocks.
Total Birds = 1118
Total Flocks = 5 (883)
Feeding Flocks = 3 (833)
Shear Pet = 673
Albatross = 1
Tern = 427
Tropicbird = 1
Booby = 10
Frigate = 10