Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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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) ST-MNH-11-1-66