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nest 2hrs at 11 hrs, 39 min
FES
23-51N; 164-26W
French Frigate Shoals.
Location 23-16 N; 164-31W
Observer Crossin et al. Date 8 June 1966 Time 0511 to 1850
Weather Clear, calm.
SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks
1-10 10-100 100-1000 Nests Eggs Young
Laysan Albatross 9 Total Birds = 996
Black-footed Albatross 20 Total Flocks = 26 (399)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 39 1st phase Feeding Flocks = 14 (283)
Christmas I. Shearwater rest flight Species = 18
Audubon's Shearwater Albatross: 29
Bonin I. Petrel 1 Shear-Pet = 124
Phoenix I. Petrel Tern = 724
Bulwer's Petrel 81 Tropicbird = 9
Sooty Petrel Booby = 74
Red-tailed Tropicbird 9 Frigate = 23
White-tailed Tropicbird Shore bird = 3
Masked Booby 32
Brown Booby 4
Red-footed Booby 35
Great Frigatebird 23
Golden Plover 3
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 250
Gray-backed Tern 74
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy 51
Hawaiian Noddy 168
Blue-gray Noddy 109 5 collected - from off Nooker for
Fairy Tern 56 Tay. series.
Black-wing Petrel 1
Pterodroma hypo. 2
Crested/Cappianter 5
Booby fa. 3
Tern fa. 21