B55 Ship Direction SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E OBSERVERS: P.J. Gravel Date 03 July 1967 Pg.# 1 SPECIMEN or number 0609 Begin Observation 0605 TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0641 Common Noddy Tern L S 0703 to 0705 Flock (from Friendly Petrel) Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Small Albatross 10E2 B 3±1 C 1- E feeding in light, drying rain dark phase 0712 Small Albatross 1- S 0717 Shear/Pet 1- 0730 To 0746 No observation. 0746 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1- W dark phase 0759 from Friendly Petrel 1- S no molt 0800 Shear/Pet 1- W 0816 Shearwater 1- C white sectors 0821 Leach/on Upper/Upper Petrel 2- C flew like Leach's 0835 Shear/Pet 1- C white below 0836 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1- E dark phase 0850 from Friendly Petrel 1- on 14D molting 0902 Leach/on Upper/Upper Petrel 1- C flew looked like Leach's 0919 Leach/on Starwoods Petrel 4- on 14D a lot of white on wings, flew like Haplocomb in strong wind (tail flaps fluttering wing beats). In this kind of weather Leach/Petrels will more often be sighted as more gliding. 0951 from Friendly Petrel 1- on 14D molting 1023 Leach Petrel 1- C typical flight & cygnetary. 1030 " " 3- on 14D SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66