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Ship
Direction
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Date 25 Jan '67
Pg.#
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0730 BFA
H.gull
(2)
Following.
0730
0955 Fulmar
1
dark
0805 BFA
0812 BLK
(3)
Now 5 following 3 Herring Gulls
0815
0815 WRS P
1
Killer Whales, 4 ca. ½ miles off. High dorsal
fin, some white aboard.
31-40 123-46
over killer whales
0825 BLK
0830 WRS P
0850 BFA
0910 BLK
(1)
now 6 following
0920 WRS P
0940 WRS P
0945 WRS P
095Y WRS P
1000
1020 BLK
1030 BFA
1040 WRS P
1127 WRS P
1141 BLK
(4)
sat on water, thin flow
10 total - all feeding a bit
1225 Shearpet
2
possibly ptarodrana, small.
1215 BLK
1225 WRS P
1228 Red Phalangia
1234 BLK
1235 Red Phaleo.
(2)
1 coll. sitting on H₂O
1307 WRS P
1335 Pterodroma
leucoptera?
1350 WRS P
1355 R.Phalangia
(1)
while underwing, flight not like Rhypoleuca. Much
stiffer wings, several flaps (3-5) and a glide suggestive
of Audubon shear. Colorful relative to back not seen.
1400 WRS P
1422 BLK
(3)
Following: 10 Herring gull, 6 BFA
1430 BLK
1438
1456
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66