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Noon 3'15N - 88'04'W
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Date 4 SEPT
Pg. #
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0630 Frigate Birds 3
Red-footed Bobbies 6
Gaegeurs, Pacific? 10-15
0645 Frigates 2
Red-footed Bobbies 7
Gaegeurs 10
0930 Leach's SP? - opeanodroma - BN
Frigate B. 1
1030 Red-footed Bobby 1 - BN
1040 Frigate B. 1 - NE
1116 Leach's SP? 1/2 - NW-N
Shearwater wedgebill? [illegible]
1155 Frigate B. 3 - NE
1215 Red-footed Bobby 1 - E
R.? [illegible] 1 - S-DN-DNU
1400 Frigate B. 3
Red-footed Bobbies 3
1415 Red-footed Bobbies 2
[illegible]
> Gaegeurs & Frigates in feeding flock - circling - Frigate - high. Bobbies in separate group - circle - during - to East
> 2nd group of birds circling + feeding to East
Soaring - high - 1-2 mi off to west
& Great
circling over surface: dark except for white belly & white mid-stripe underside wings; neck sides brown, underside white. 1 female Great; 28° - followed ship south then flew off to NE. 14th Frigate joined up
all white bird glimpse - disappeared in waves.
off in distance, 1/2 - 1 mile
6 HR OBS
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66