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assumed NW
Ship
Direction
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
RLP/c
Date Sept 11, 1967
Pg.# 2
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
1408 Sterna 1
1410 Shearwater-sp 1
1413 Shearwater-sp 1
1416 W. Gull 3
1422 Sabine Gull 1
1422 Sterna 3
1425 Sterna 4
1425 W. Gull 4
1426 Pink-ft. Sh. 1 N
Distant, Sooty size-probably Sooty
Distant, Sooty size-probably Sooty
3 sitting on water
light brown above, distinctly darker wing tips
Dirty white below - large- flapped a lot-arced couple of times
1428 Sterna 8 AAS
Sabine Gull 1 GA
3 together
on water
1429 W. Gull 1
Sterna 1
1432 Sterna 1
Sabine Gull 1
1437 Sterna 3
Gull-sp 1
Distant - but probably large like Western
3
1440 Sterna 1 S
1441 Sterna 1 S
1454 W. Gull 1 S
1456 Phalarope? 8 NW
Acl
Size + general color of phalaropes- tight flock
flying by 50' above water, 1 repeating a single call
Note "cheek"
1 imm/subadult, 1 adult
Acl
1501 W. Gull 2
1507 Sterna 1
1511 W. Gull 1
1514 W. Gull 1
1518 W. Gull 2 E
1543 W. Gull 1 SE
1544 W. Gull 1
on water, flushed
imm/sub-adult
1 acl; 1 subadult
subadult
adult
close obs
1655
Begin obs
1714 Gull-sp 1
1715 Mammal 2 3 probably same
1717 Dolphin 2
1730 W. Bull 1
1735
Prob. Western - very distant- crossed bow & settled on water
2 fin sightings simultaneously
Came out of water - dark above, white below
Standing on keel
Close obs.
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66