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Location 6-57 N; 170-58 W — 5-20 N; 172-24 W
Observer Grossin et al Date 10 July 1966 Time 0615 to 1847
Weather Clear + Calm Miles 124 Hours 12 hrs 3 2 min
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Layson Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 45 2 light phase, 43 dark phase (2 coll.)
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater 1
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater 6 1 call.
Juan Fernandez Petrel 6
White-necked Petrel
Kermodec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel 1
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 26 1 coll
Bulwer's Petrel 5
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 12
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 2
Pomarine Jaeger
Pterodroma sp. 2 Shear - pet = 92
frigate sp. 1 Tern ~ 14
Tropicbird sp. 1 Tropicbird - Reg. = 73
Bird sp. 8 Frigate = 1
Misc = 8
Total Birds 118
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 4 (56)
Total Species 12
Feeding Flocks 2 (42)
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