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