Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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Last day of Le@wards #13 | 12hrs. 26min Location Kauai to ca. 20 mi.SE. Observer Crossin et. al. Date 25 June 1966 Time 0558 to 1924 Weather clear, seas rough, wind up to 20-25 Knts. SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Total Birds = 494 Total Flocks = 9 (120) Feeding Flocks = 3 (51) Species = 13 Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 218 Christmas I. Shearwater 1 ? Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 7 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 4 White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby 6 Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Scoty Tern 10 1 ad coll. Gray-backed Tern 1 Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 23 Hawaiian Noddy 2 Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Newell's Shear 204 3 call! Dark-rumped Pet 5 White-rumped SP. 4 Prob. all. Harcourts. Harcourts SP. 3 1 coll. Tropicbird go. 5