Crossin, Richard S., 1965-1966, 1968
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Location McKean to 04°32'S; 173°29'W Observer Crossin Date 31 Oct 1968 Time 1245 to 1700 Weather Miles 47 Hours 4.3 SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater 5/56 1 Slender-billed Shearwater Christmas Island Shearwater Newell's Shearwater Juan Fernandez Petrel 1 White-necked Petrel Kermadec Petrel Phoenix Island Petrel Mottled Petrel Bonin Island Petrel Black-winged Petrel Bulwer's Petrel 2 Leach's Storm Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Blue-faced Booby 13 Brown Booby 3 Red-footed Booby 11 Great Frigatebird Lesser Frigatebird 90 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sooty Tern 521 Gray-backed Tern Common Noddy Tern 2 Fairy Tern Pomarine Jaeger Audubon's Shear Blue-grey Noddy 1 Feeding Flocks = 1 (353) Traveling Flocks = 3 (70) Total Birds 648 Total Sightings [illegible] Total Flocks 4 (625) Total Species 11 ST-MNH-11-1-66 Location 06°14'S; 172°19'W - 08°25'-171°00'W Observer Crossin Date 1 Nov 68 Time 0645 to 1045 Weather Miles 80 Hours 1130-1300 1630-1815 (7.3) SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater 56 2 Slender-billed Shearwater Christmas Island Shearwater Newell's Shearwater Juan Fernandez Petrel White-necked Petrel Kermadec Petrel Phoenix Island Petrel Mottled Petrel 6 Bonin Island Petrel Black-winged Petrel 1 Bulwer's Petrel 1 Leach's Storm Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Blue-faced Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird Lesser Frigatebird 1 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sooty Tern 48 Gray-backed Tern Common Noddy Tern Fairy Tern Pomarine Jaeger White-winged Petrel 1 Long-tailed Jaeger 1 Large Pterod 1 Total Birds 93 Total Sightings 78 Total Flocks 2 (70) with True, Total Species 9 ST-MNH-11-1-66