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Last Day in Southern Grid.
Location 0-12N; 176-19W — 1-29S; 175-30W
Observer Crossin et. al. Date 22 July 1966 Time 0649 to 1850
Weather sea rough, heavy swells. Miles 113 Hours 12 hrs. 1 min.
(721 min)
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 7 all dark phase
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater 1
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 9
Bulwer's Petrel 1
Lace's Storm Petrel 4
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-faced Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby 2
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird 6
Lesser Frigatebird 40 2 call.
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 773 1 call.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 3 Terns = 776
Pomarine Jaeger
Pterodroma sp. 1 Storm Petrel = 4
Frigate sp. 161 Tropic bird = 1
Booby = 2
Frigate = 207
Total Birds (1009)
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 15 (955)
Total Species 12
Feeding Flocks = 6 (867)
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