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Swains Is. Toward Tarawa
Location Swains Island — 10-16S; 170-16W
Observer Qrossin et al.
Date 3 Aug. 1966
Time 1200 to 1515
Weather squalls.
Miles 73
Hours 6 hrs. 12 min.
SPECIES
NUMBERS
REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
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
Black-winged Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
1
White-tailed Tropicbird
3
1 coll.
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
1
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
1
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern
71
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Frigate
Cook's Petrel
1 coll.
shear Pet = 1
Tern = 71
Tropicbird = 4
Booby = 1
Frigate = 2
Total Birds
79
Total Sightings
Total Flocks
4(73)
Total Species
6
Feeding flocks = 3(53)
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