Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Ship
Direction
N
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
NON GRID
OBSERVERS:
Date 21 SEPT. 1967
Pg.# 3
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
1430
1445 WE.
Storm Pet
(
Cee
BEGIN NON GRID OBS.
1511 Par? Jaeger
(
S
It phase - Rel. 2
1531 Tern-sp
Jaeger sp
13
S
S
Distant-in sun.-Terns strung out- Jaeger below.
13 counted-could have been more present
1542 Jaeger sp
(
S
Distant
1543 Pomarine Jaeger
(
Stir
Distant-Good central tail feathers
1543 Jaeger sp
(
Lee
Distant
1556 Tern/Jaeger
5
S
Very distant
WRSP-4
PARJ-1
TENU-20
JSP-9
1630 B.F.Alb.
2
Cee
Following
1633 WRSP
(
Lee
1640 WRSP
(
Pom.J-4
1653 Sterna
(
SE
Fairly close - Common or Arctic
BIRD-5
BF#-2
STORM-10
TROPI-1
1700 Storm pet
(
E
Making steady progress Eastward
Red-billed?
1722 Tropicbird.
(
Cee
SHEMA.
1723 Tern-sp
(
E
1724 Red Phalarope
(
Lee, E
IF the letter only a dark place Pomarine
would appear the size. RPHAL-1
1737 Skim/Jaeger
(
Stir
Turn - Intermediate place.
1745 Pango
(
Stir
LTJ-1
1750 Pango
WRSP
(
Stir
8T
80
Fly around
POM-J-2
1755 Sterna
(
Stir
60
1801 Jaeger sp.
(
SE
Far off.
1818
1822 Jaeger
(
SE
Large bill first leaping & long kicks
Ca 2 miles ahead - Sound as muffled.
-LTJL.
1823 Stern
2
SN
1828 Terns
2
S
Gosnell Arctic
1831 LtJee
(
S
Rel 2 Lt phase
1834 Pom. jaeger
(
SE
-Rel 2 - Lt phase
1846 Storm petrel
(
W
1850 Storm petrel
(
E
1851 Storm petrel
(
W
1853 Storm petrel
(
E
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66