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Location 0-075; 164-06W - 0.03N; 166-01W
Observer Crossin et al.
Date 11 Aug 1966 Time 0605 to 1813
Weather Clear, calm.
Miles 116
Hours 12 hrs. 5min.
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1 dark phase
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel 1 Many whales & Dolphin.
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 3
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 186
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
White-rumped SP 3 Possibly Wilson's Short-tailed Gull? Suggested White-faced Storm Petrel
Storm Petrel sp. 1
Pterodroma sp. 1
Bristle-thighed Curlew 3
Cooks Petrel 1
Bird sp. 1
Total Birds 121
Total Sightings
Total Flocks 2 (97)
Total Species 7
Feeding Flocks = 1 (92)
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