Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Ship
Direction
224
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
SPECIMEN
or
BAND NO. REMARKS
TIME SPECIES # DIR.
OBSERVERS:
Date 12 Feb 1967
Pg.# 2
0900 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- ☉
0900 Kermode Petrel 1- ☉ dark phase
0900 Fisch Petrel 1- on H2O feeding on H2O Took us at least 3 minutes to reach at ca. 10 knots so bird was at least 1/2 mile away when first seen.
0928 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- NNE w. molt apparent
0945 Storm Petrel 1- NNN
1007 Storm Petrel 2- ☉ one (Leach's ? , distinctly larger than the other foot?) could not tell whether either had a white rump,
1011 Shear/Petrel 1- NNE W
1011 Leach Petrel 1- ☉
1014 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- NNE E body mold apparent, wing molt not apparent
1019 Storm Petrel 1- ☉
1020 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- N
1029 1- NNE E
1024 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- ☉ molties
Weedy/leach Shearwaters 1- ☉ light phase
1030 Leach Petrel 1- ☉
1030 W/O
10
1345
rain 1353 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- NNE W Rain, rough seas, completely cloudy sky, high wind
rain 1403 Shear/Petrel 1- NNE W all dark
rain 1410 1- ☉ NNE W white belly found.
rain 1416 Juan Fernandy Petrel 1- NNE W
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66