EAC 14, Jordan, June-August 1967
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Ship Direction 17 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E OBSERVERS: M. Gouel Date 21 June 1967 Pg.# 2 TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0952 Phaethon 1- - - looked small 0957 Shearwater 1- - - a bit below, looked like wedge-tail 0959 Leach's Petrel 1- - - 1000 to 1425 No obs. at recording buoy oceanographic station a light phase Wedge-tail was seen a little stopped (ca 1115) 1425 Red-tail 1- own slip (new ship heading 152°) Frigatebird 1529 Shearwater 1- nw - flyp like Wedge-tail, flying in light rain just after we passed through heavy rain squall 1530 1538 Shearwater 1- - - all dark, looked and flew like a wedge-tail. 1553 Shearwater 1- - - both were white bellied, white underwing with black border, both looked large size. Both at edge of rain squall. 1600 to 1730 No obs. Oceanographic Station 1720 Slow speed Plankton - - 1735 - - - - 1758 Wedge-tail 2- - - both light phase Shearwater 1806 Black-wing 1- → - - Petrel 1816 Wedge-tail 1- → - light phase Shearwater SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66