EAC 14, Jordan, June-August 1967
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180 Ship Direction SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E SPECIMEN senior 0628 OBSERVERS: C.F. Gould Date 20 June 1967 Pg. # 1 TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS observed on 0628 0630 Procellariiform type Gird 1 ? 0651 Fork Petrel 1 SE 0710 Black-wing Petrel 1 NW 0719 Sooty Shearwater Petrel 1 N to NW 0726 Cook's/White-wriggled Petrel 1 W 0735 Juan Fernandez ? Petrel 1 NW 0740 Tremendous Shearwater 1 W 0743 Red-tail Procellarid 3 N 0745 to 065. BREAK FAST 0753 0851 Black-winged Petrel 1 W 0958 Pterodroma 1 NW 0903 Shearwater 1 W 0910 Small Pterodroma 1 V 5 The watch reported a storm petrel and a white-bellied shearwater around the lights at the 0400-0600 station this morning. grey headed petrel, thick black in under border - good view - typical Black wing. not too well seen as bird was in the distance but there appeared to be little or no black under wing border. difficultly a small cookaleia. in distance, looked a whit below but a little too far away to be certain about size - rather like a J.F.P. circled ship once all three looked fully adult. but was not pink. good view of back, black under wing in distance - looked rather like a Cookaleia - appeared sort like a Black-winged Petrel. in distance - large, brown looked (solid) white belly, underwing white but appeared to have a dark spoiler. looked very much like a little shear wedge-tailed Shearwater SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66