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Location 16-26N; 162-13W — 14-43N; 163-44W 55
Observer Crossin et. al. Date 7 July 1866 Time 0521 to 1828
Weather overcast, seas rough, Miles 136 Hours 18hrs 7min.
swells ca. 4'.
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 28 12 light phase, 16 dark phase
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater 1
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 15 2 coll.
White-necked Petrel 2
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 9
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 5 ( = 1)
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 45
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 3
Pomarine Jaeger
Pterodroma sp. 7 Shear Pet. = 64
Pterodroma hypoleuca 1 Tern = 57
Tropicbird = 6
Misc = 20
141
Tern sp. 3
Bird sp. 20
Shear Pet. 1
Total Birds 141
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 5 (85)
Total Species 8
Feeding Flocks = 3 (69)
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