Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
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