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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