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3RD DAY IN SOUTHERN GRID
Location HOWLAND ISLAND To 01°56'N ~ 177°15'W
Observer CROSSIN et. al. Date 14 JULY Time 0800 to 1901
Weather CLEAR 10 Knot E.Wind. Miles 102 Hours (1 hrs 01 min)
(661 min)
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 4 dark phase
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Kermodec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 9
Bulwer's Petrel
Loafer's Storm Petrel 1 WRSP
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby 58 48 ad., 4 imm., 1 BS. ad.
Brown Booby 1 1 ad.
Red-footed Booby 15 5 ad., 10 imm.
Great Frigatebird sp.? 43
Lesser Frigatebird 13
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 728 All ad., 2 BS. 2 collected
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern Storm Petrel = 1
Pomarine Jaeger Tern 728
Wandering Tattler 1 Booby 68 74
Pterodroma sp? 2 Frigate 56
Shear-pet. 1 Shear.pet. 16
Bird 80 1 Shorebirds 1
Misc 1
Total Birds 877
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 10 (745)
Total Species 169
FE 2(458)
SI.MNH-11-1.66