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Ship
Direction
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS: pJGued
Date 23 febr. 1967
Pg.# 2
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0915 Juan Fernandez
Petrel 1 - @ - molting
0823 Shear/Pet
0832 Juan Fernandez
Petrel 1 - W
1 - W - molting
0835 & FLOCK
0945 Wedge-tail
Juan Fernandez
Petrel 300±50 - DARKHOUSE
100±25 -
at least half of the birds were sitting
on the water, the rest were flying lazily
aboard or if flushed from the ship.
at least one of the wedge-tails
was molting in the previous
0850 Juan Fernandez
Petrel 2 - NE -
0952 " 1 - W -
0857 Black-winged
Petrel 1 - NNE -
0903 Juan Fernandez
Petrel ( - E - molting
0908 " 1 - UW -
0906 Wedge-tail
Shearwater 1 - NE - light phase
0910 Juan Fernandez
Petrel ( - NE - molting
0915 " 1 - S -
0921 " 1 - E -
0922 " 1 - on 1/20 -
0922 Wedge-tail
Shearwater 2 - S - Dark phase
0924 Shear/Pet 1 - E -
0928 Terns 5 - SE -
0938 Juan Fernandez
Petrel 1 - SE -
0938 Shear/Pet 1 -
Looked like the right-tigs, above, 4 flight for
Sooty Terns, over below horizon. I could make out
whites below, dark above, rest of the tern
they were once pelicans
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66