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3rd day sec 20
15-08N; 162-02W - 13-16N; 163-18W
Observer Crossin
Date 09 oct 1968 Time 0539 to 1735
Weather partly cloudy, fair squalls Miles 99 Hours - 1100-1700
Sea rip a bit with last two legs.
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 2 dark ph.
Sooty Shearwater/5b 1
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 19
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 21
Bulwer's Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 4 2 ad, 1 Im, 1?
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover 4
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 26 all ads.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 1
Pomarine Jaeger
White-winged Petrel 2 Shear-Pet - 48
Pterodroma sp. 3 Tropicbird - 4
Tern - 27
Shorebird - 4
Total Birds 83
Total Sightings Feeding Fl. 2 (25)
Total Flocks 3 (38)
Total Species 9
4th day of sec 20
Location 11° 25'N; 164° 35'W - 09° 36'N; 16° W
Observer Crossin
Date 10 oct 1968 Time 0700 to 1750
Weather heavy squalls most of day. Miles 71 Hours - 1100-1700
F.1
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 3 dark phase.
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater 17
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 12
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 13
Bulwer's Petrel 2
Leach's Storm Petrel 1
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 3 ads.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Pterodroma sp. 5 Shear-Pet = 60
White-winged Petrel 2 Storm Pet = 1
Mottled Petrel 5 Tropicbird = 1
Shear/Pet 1 Tern =
Shorebird =
Total Birds 66
Total Sightings Feeding Fl. 3 (9)
Total Flocks 2 (14)
Total Species 11
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