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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
1966
DATE 14 DECEMBER
Pg.# 3
o95y Black leg
kittiwake
0956 Pelican
0956 Gull sp.
0957 Pelican
1000 Gull sp.
1005 "
1010 Pelican
Gull sp. 75±15
1011 Gull sp
1011 Kittiwake ?
1012 Gull sp
1019 Gull sp
1022 Pelican
1026 Pelican
1030
1035 Pelican
1035 Herring Gull
1040 Black-leg
kittiwake
1050 Western Gull
Herring Gull
Gull Sp.
1055 Cormorant sp
1056 Gulls sp.
FF 11/4 Kittiwake Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Gull sp
Pelican
1125 Cormorants
1134 Slender-bill
Shearwater
# dir. hgt. remarks
1 NW
1 N
1 SE
2 E
1 N
11 V
2 V
1 NW
2 3
1 5 low
2 SE
1
1 @
2 ad.
2 ad.
3 down
2
10
5+
30 ±5
4
3 E
1 5W
loc.
jetyn bird
on water
high
""
Very small, Storm petrel light flutter flight
very white appearing but darker (guy?) on back
struck low to water for out.
Marked contrast between back & belly.
two adult Western Gulls still following ship
following ship
Scavenging by diving to water and probing
at something with bill while body 57:11 in air "contact dipping."
following ship thrashed sad in water
heeding towards island
scattered around on horizon (rocks-sticks)
- gulls, gannets dumped overhead + gulls & pelican
can slip in from all directions - flood gull from
5 & 50+ in port / in two minutes -
1 hour Tuna 3 adults
traveling
under top pole but not white on silver
flaw more tadarliiis il