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Mnn 07°52'N - 85°04'W
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Date 27 AUG 67
Pg.#
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0645 Storm Petrel 2 Oceanodroma
Wilson's? Leach's?
Brown Booby 1 E-BW
0845 Sanderling or Sandpiper 1
0850 Shorebird
0915 Oceanodroma
(Leach SP, 25
Brown Booby 3
0945 Brown Booby 1 DW
1000-1045 Leach's? S.P.) 200÷25
O. tellings Rd B
1110 1
1500-1545 Snowy Egret 1 NE
1 Small
Double Boobies 2 BE/NE
[illegible] 236
dead - floated by sling;
school of skipjack tuna went
off to west; Green Turtle swam
up to ship from 210°T then
away to 280°-290°T
in wake
200-300 yd SE. of ship
Skipjack Tuna off to West
floating in dense group on
surface, some diving occasionally
When ship slowed then -
they scattered & disappeared.
Marlin jumped 1 mi. S. of ship
5' Shark swam around vessel -
came in from NE - circled
ship then flew NE.
small green turtle passed ship
each alone just above surface
4 HR OBS
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66