NOCTURNAL 5th NIGHT IN SOUTHERN GRID Location 1-60N ; 175-39W TO HOWLAND ISLAND Observer CROSSIN et.al. Date 16/17 JULY Time 1854 to 0430 Weather Miles 69 Hours 11 Hrs. 36 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 1 3 calls. White-necked Petrel Kermadec Petrel Phoenix Island Petrel Mottled Petrel Bonin Island Petrel Black-winged Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Leach's Storm Petrel 5 1 leaches call, 4 WRSP Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Blue-faced Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird s.p. 1 Lesser Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sooty Tern 599 20 coll , 3 banded, 1 Blue streamered Gray-backed Tern Common Noddy Tern Fairy Tern Pomarine Jaeger Tern- 599 Shear-pet 2 Shear-pet 8 Bird 2 Frigate 1 Bird 2 Total Birds 610 Total Sightings Total Flocks 18+ (147) 7350 in 4 flocks of 12+5 Total Species 5 Feeding Flocks 0 ST-MNHE-11-1-66