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Location Hawland Island to 0-04 S; 178-09 W
Observer Crossin et. al.
Date 18 July 1966 Time 0805 to 1902
Weather Wind ca. 15 knots
Sea rough heavy swells.
Miles 117 Hours 10 hrs, 57 min.
(657 min)
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 9 (1 light phase, 8 dark phase)
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 17 1 calls
Bulwer's Petrel
WR Storm Petrel 1
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 1 ad. call.
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby 5 1 blue streamer subad.
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird sp. 8
Lesser Frigatebird 1
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 253 3 ad. calls
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Storm-Petrel = 1
Shear-Pet = 26
Tern = 253
Tropic bird = 2
Booby = 5
Frigate = 9
Total Birds 296
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 11 (222)
Total Species 7
Feeding Flocks: 2 (139)
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