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Ship Direction
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Date 20 jul 1967
Pg. # 2
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0945 white-throated Storm Petrel 1-
0946 Sooty Petrel 1 - SW - faded tail, dark wing, looked just like Leach's petrel
0955
78
1010 gbs.
1013 Storm Petrel 2 - © - flew like a Leach's
1014 1- 11 1 - W - flew like a Leach's
1024 white-throated Storm Petrel 1 - @
1058 Dark-rump Petrel 1 - 275W - change course to 090° at 1036 - very close - white forehead obvious, dark underwing border difficult especially between body & base of wing - bird appeared uniform, rich brown or blood-brown - could not detect any trace of "M" pattern, flew like a Sooty Petrel.
1100 To
1650
Oceanographic Station
2 Leaks reported at ca 1615
1726 Sooty Petrel 2 - © - 1650 - slow speed (cast knob) and low
white-throated Storm Petrel 1 - @ 1710 - full speed - course 020°
Seems observer at sunset 1737 - very little glibby, would swoop up high then descend and sit, with outstretched wings, on water for ca. 10-20 seconds, then flutter around, rise up in air, descend, SI-MNH-958-e oil on H2O (while fin the hand would be thrust about in the water)
Rev. 5-66