Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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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