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Location 19-40 N ; 159-27 W — 17-54 N ; 160-53 W
Observer Crossin et. al.
Date 6 July 1966 Time 0505 to 1823
Weather Squalls, SWWLLS ca. 6' Miles 132 Hours 13 hrs. 18min.
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 40 ♀ 3 dark phase, rest light
Sooty Shearwater 3 2 with dark underwings - prob Sb
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater 1
Newell's Shearwater 12
Juan Fernandez Petrel 17
White-necked Petrel 5
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel 1
Black-winged Petrel 5
Bulwer's Petrel 1
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 5
White-tailed Tropicbird 7
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone 87
Sooty Tern 87
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern 4
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger Shear-Pet = 119
Dark-rumped Petrel 3 Tern = 91
Pterodroma hypoleucos 12 Tropicbird = 14
Pterodroma sp. 11
Shear - Pet 8 Total Birds 224
Tropicbird sp. 2 Total Sightings
3(50)
Total Species 12
Feeding Flocks 2(21)
SI-MNH-11—1-66