Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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Location Howland Island To To Howland Island. Observer Crossin et.al. Date 20 July 1966 Time 0500 to 1737 Weather seas rough. Miles 972 Hours 9 hrs. 37 min. (577 min) SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 4 all dark phase Sooty Shearwater Slender-billed Shearwater Christmas Island Shearwater Newell's Shearwater Juan Fernandez Petrel White-necked Petrel Kermodec Petrel Phoenix Island Petrel [illegible] 1 Mottled Petrel Bonin Island Petrel Black-winged Petrel 9 Bulwer's Petrel W R - Storm Petrel 7 Red-tailed Tropicbird 3 White-tailed Tropicbird 1 BS - Blue-faced Booby 54 Brown Booby 8 Red-footed Booby 3 Great Frigatebird Lesser Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sooty Tern 1353 4 ad. call. Gray-backed Tern Common Noddy Tern Term = 1355 Fairy Tern 2 Shear-Pet = 15 Pomarine Jaeger Tropic bird = 8 Pale-footed Shearwater 1 Booby = 66 Booby 50. Frigate 80. 11 Frigate = 11 Storm.Petrel = 7 Total Birds 1457 Total Sightings Total Flocks 31 (1163) Total Species 12 Feeding Flocks = 4 (446) ST-MNHT-11-1-66