Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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Location 24-37N; 168-13W - 25-14N; 170-25W Observer Crossin et. al. Date 9 June 1966 Time 0523 to 1912 Weather heavy swell running, partly cloudy Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young SPECIES Laysan Albatross 4 highest counted in any one time Total Birds = 950 Black-footed Albatross 55 highest count seen Total Flocks = 23 (673) Wedge-tailed Shearwater 391 all light phase 1cdl. Feeding Flocks = 10 (491) Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel 1 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 11 Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 8 1 call. White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 4 Brown Booby 1 Red-footed Booby 3 Great Frigatebird 10 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 426 13 ad-cd l. Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy 3 Hawaiian Noddy 1 Blue-gray Noddy 1 Fairy Tern 6 Pterodroma sp. 4 Crested/Casquet 1 Tern sp. 15 Shear pet 1 Tropicbird sp 1