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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
[illegible]
Date 13 Feb 1967
Pg.# 3
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0752 Mont
Shearwater 1- E->
0752 [illegible]
Petrel 1- E+5->
0755 11 1-
0755 Black Petrel 1-
at 0800 one [illegible] oil on the water.
The Black petrel flew over and oil beside
the TFP for several minutes then the LSP
flew off. The second TFP we see flying
around the general area.
These birds did not act like gulls, was
in that they were not continuously moving in one
direction. No birds seen from the NW
0807 Flocks
[illegible]
Petrel 40±5-
0816 Wedge-tail
Shearwater 30±5-
[illegible]
Petrel 2-
Black Petrel 1-
may be fairly but birds widely
scattered, not drifting but staying in
same general area
0820 [illegible]
Petrel 10±2-
0823 Mont
Shearwater 1-
Pink-footed
Shearwater 1-
Wedge-tail
Shearwater 1-
Scattered
not a true flock?
maybe Scarcely Flock
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66