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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