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OBSERVERS:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
SPECIMEN
or
BAND NO.
Date 5 Dec 67
Pg.# /
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. REMARKS
0700 Sunrise begins observations
05 H.Gull 4 e
BFA 1 co
Following 2 1st year 2 Ad
17 H.Bull e
30 BFA 9 ce
" Davis Bay?
37 SP? 2 " ee
0905 Leach's SP 1 eer
25 " " 1 ceu
38 " " 1 cu
53 H.Gull 11 cer
Following 1 Ad rest 1-2 nd Winter
56 " " 15 e
3 Ad
0906 LA 1 co
Following
16 B.Phul 1 NE
25 Sooty Shear 1 ce
Red 3
31 " " 1 cer
31 Leach's SP 1 ceo
0946
Killer Whale 1 only
0950 WRS P 1 SW
1/2 R
14-18 ft. Dorsal ca 2.5 ft.
0954 Phalacrocorax 1 888
Saddle of 1st Dorsal showed
well. Blows not well defined,
only small water spray.
1016-1025
-MOB-Drill
1020 BEA - 2 DK /Lt
1045 Cook's Petrel 2 888 Far off; identification more by behavior than
form. White underwings & body ventral
pterygia. mantle light gray. Behavior:
short glides with little to moderate arch, Turning
flapping - shallow-flaps and gliding again as 5/sec.
then other small Pterodroma
1048 S.Lan/gat 1 S
Not Early Sloan
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66