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5th day in Southern Grid
Location Howland Island To 1-00N ; 175-39W)
Observer Crossin et. al Date 16 July 1966 Time 0830 to 1854
Weather Mostly clear, wind ca. Miles 86 Hours 10 hrs. 24 min.
12 Knots. Clouds on horizon. (624 min)
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 2
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel 2
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 1 call.
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby 13
Brown Booby 4
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 387 4 call.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Pterodroma hypoleuca 2 Tern = 387
Pterodroma so. 1 Shear-Pet= 6
White-rumped Storm Petrel 7 Tropicbird = 2
Shear-Pet 1 Booby = 16
Frigate yo. 16 Frigate = 16
Storm Petrel = 9
Total Birds 436
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 13 (340)
Total Species 7
Feeding Flocks = 6 (231)
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