EAC 14, Jordan, June-August 1967
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Ship Direction 180 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E OBSERVERS: R. J. Gould Date 25 June Pg.# 1 / 1967 SPECIMEN or samies 0653 begin observation TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0715 Blackwing Pahl 1 NE 0748 To 0831 No* - See note -> Ship stopped for STD station at 0810 0841 Wedge-tail? Shearwater 1 ? Ship resume speed at 0831 light phase at 0823 a white- rumped starlet flew around ship - flight lighter than Feeds, with less soaring, wing beat more constant and somewhat deeper than feeds. Ring Tailed very broad, deeply bowed, without tips of brownish, it appeared to eat fast out toward end of foil Thin dark feeds - Definite Humpback Storm Petrel Flight much more Feeds like Thin Oceanites etc. 1030 To 1230 No 06 S. Ship stopped for Oceanographic Station ca. 1230 begin Slow plankton Tow 1255 - half speed for another net tow 1342 reason fall speed. 1400 To 1500 No 06 S. Ship stopped for equator crossing ceremony - 1509 Humpback Storm Petrel 1 N traveling 1575 Jenny Founy Pelted 1 [illegible] probably flushed from water no opportunity 1576 II 1 [illegible] no apparent molt SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66