Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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Location Howland Island to Baker Island to Howland Island Observer Crossin et al. Date 21 July 1966 Time 0830 to 1715 Weather sea mod.rough. Miles 69 Hours 8hrs. 45 min. 525min Skiff running 1230-1410 SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 1 coll. both 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 4 Black-winged Petrel 3 1 coll. Bulwer's Petrel 1 Leach's Storm Petrel 2 2coll. Red-tailed Tropicbird 2 White-tailed Tropicbird Blue-faced Booby 62 Brown Booby 3 Red-footed Booby 17 Great Frigatebird 1 Lesser Frigatebird 9 3 coll. Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sooty Tern 1291 32 ad. coll. Gray-backed Tern Common Noddy Tern Fairy Tern Pomarine Jaeger White-rumped Storm Petrel 4 Tern = 1291 Frigate go. 185 Shear-Pet = 6 Tropicbird = 2 Booby = 82 Frigate = 203 Storm Petrel = 6 Total Birds 1582 Total Sightings Total Flocks 444 (1380) Total Species 11 Feeding flocks = 7 (899) ST-MNTH-11-1-66