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Noon 13°34N~98°01'W
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Date 22 SEPT 67
Pg.#
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0600 Brown Booby 1
0645 Brown " 2
0710 Brown " 8
0730 (NORTHERN) PHALACROPS 45
0810 Booby 1
STORM PETREL 1
school of fish (Sleipjack Tuna?) jumping 200-300 yds. in wake
1045 (Heaclis S.) Oceanodroma
BLUE FACED BOOBY 1
Blacky (SOOTY) S.P. 1 -BS,SE
1145 BLUE FACED Booby 1 -BS,SU
MARLIN 1
GREENS TURTLE 1
BROWN BOOBY 4 -BSE
1230 BROWN BOOBY 5
1300 (SANDPIPER) -1 -BNW
1330 BLUE FACED Booby 1 -BNJVE
1335 " " 3 -BE
1500- 1700 " " 10 -BS
1815 (DONLIN? SANDPIPER) 1
Phidangea
[illegible]
ON FOREMAST ABOVE RADAR : STAYED THERE OVERNIGHT?
flew around ship - one on mast joined them.
flying about & sitting on water
white - too far off to IDEN.
like heaclis except no white stump
completely dark.
flew around ship 3 times then NW
FISHING BUOYS - LONG LINERS ? SIGHTED
GROUPS of 2,3 & indivi
like sandpiper seen earlier. On
surface, flew up - then back to
surface.
SHR OBS
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66