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Location 03°57'N; 169°10'W — 01°58'N; 170°37'W
Observer Crossin Date 12 Oct 1968 Time 0601 to 1715
Weather Partly cloudy, sea mild calm Miles Hours 8.8
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 3 2 Jr. Pt., 1 1/2 Pt.
Sooty Shearwater
Slender-billed Shearwater
Christmas Island Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 1
White-necked Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel [illegible] 3 Two almost certainly Ph. Di.
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 4
Bulwer's Petrel
W R Leach's Storm Petrel 6? almost certainly Manchurian.
Red-tailed Tropicbird 4
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 5 all imm.
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 9 all ad's.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern 1
Fairy Tern 5
Pomarine Jaeger
Pterodroma sp. 6 Shear-Pet = 21
Mottled Petrel 4 Storm Petrel = 4
Long-tailed Jaeger 2 Tropicbird = 4
Booby = 5
Tern = 15
Jaeger = 2
Total Birds 51
Total Sightings-Fl. F. 1 (5)
Total Flocks 2 (12)
Total Species 12
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Location 00°01'S; 171°56'W — 02°07'S; 173°03'W
Observer Crossin Date 13 Oct 1968 Time 0606 to 1100
Weather Miles 54 Hours 4.9
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 6 all dusk ph.
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 1
Bulwer's Petrel
W R Leach's Storm Petrel 1
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 1
Great Frigatebird 8
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 2159 585Fm.09.
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 6 Shear-Pet = 8
Pomarine Jaeger Storm Pet = 1
Frigate sp. 15 Booby = 1
Long-tailed Jaeger 2 Frigate = 23
Tern = 2/65
Jaeger = 2
Feeding Flocks = 8 (1942)
Traveling Flocks = 7 (248)
Total Birds 2100
Total Sightings 15 (2189)
Total Species 9