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Location 21-44 N; 160-22 W) — 22-35N; 162-42W
Observer Crasin et al. Date 7 June 1986 Time 0535 to 1832
Weather Clear, seas calm; slight chop.
Total Birds = 1740
Total Flocks = 28(353)
Feeding Flocks 16 (108)
Species = 19
shear petr:
Albatross = 4
Shear Pet = 328
Tern = 1303
Tropicbird = 2
13 o’day = 25
Prigetto = 1
Storm Pet = 2
Misc = 25
1240
Laysan Albatross 1
Black-footed Albatross 3 /dip, nits
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 191 187 light phase
Christmas I. Shearwater 6
Audubon’s Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel Phapa 2
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer’s Petrel 106 3 coll,
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby 2
Brown Booby 7
Red-footed Booby 16
Great Frigatebird 1
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 6/0
Gray-backed Tern 10
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy 601
Hawaiian Noddy 8
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern 67
Newells Shear 21
Susan Fernandy 1
W RSP 3
Shear Pet 1
Tern go. 7
Bird 25