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R/V JORDAN : EASTROPAC 50
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
SPECIMEN
OR
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0612 -- -- -- -- SUNRISE, begin observations
0630 Blue-faceBaby 1 -- -- SA following, molt in primaries
0647 Puffinus put 1 -- --
0658 Wedgetail 1 NE -- light phase
0708 Sooty Shear 1 SE -- quite sure d.i.d.
0725 Shear/Pet 1 NE -- CLOSE OBSERV.
0730 -- -- -- -- resume "
0750 -- -- -- -- sea turtle
0807 Blue-face B. 1 -- -- SA following, almost adult plumage. Dove i caught a flying fish. molt in block.
0850 Sooty T 2 NE ad Just before diving each time it gave a squawk
0855 -- -- -- -- whale I - tall, thin blow: like humpback/Finback
0925 Leach's 1 N -- ad: low to water, travelling
0928 Sooty T 2 NE --
0938 Leach's Pt 3 NE --
WRS P 1 NE --
WRS P 1 -- --
1007 -- -- -- --
1030 -- -- -- --
1320 -- -- -- -- stop for oceanography station, close observations.
1330 Blue foot Booby 2 SE -- resume observations, 5 knots NE
1335 -- -- -- -- resume full speed
1358 WRS P 1 -- --
1400 Sooty Tem 2 E -- Ad. low to H2O, travelling
1425 WRS P 2 -- -- over small natural slick
1535 -- 1 -- --
1550 -- -- -- -- stop for oceanography station: close obs.
1720 Barn Swallow 1 -- -- landed on radio antenna; apparently an immature judging by short outer tail feathers
1739 -- -- -- -- Sunset, still on station.
Total hours: 6-40 min
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66