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OBSERVERS:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
SPECIMEN
or
BAND NO.
Date 2 Dec. 1967
Pg.# 2
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. REMARKS
1231 Br Pel 3- N
32 Common Gull 1- S
47 West. Gull 1- N
59
adult
4-6 Lagenodus obliquus TO THE EAST swan across bow
All took breath scow swimming along only a couple of feet below the surface - 2 subgroups, may have been feeding when first noted as they were stationary.
1307 Heerman's Gull 1- 5
1310 Gull spp. 30±10 ll
1310 Br Pel 10±2 ell
1320
1325
All on H₂O - feeding -
sea lion? - feeding? diving
all on H₂O - feeding
Br Pel 6- SEA LION - floating at surface when first noted - then swim to west.
Gull spp. 6- ell
on H₂O 3 together
27 Br Pel 1- ell
29 " 1- ell
35 Br Pel 12- S
Heerman Gull 11- e
Pel Cormorant 4- a
Feeding together on H₂O
39 Pom Tanager 2- ee Int Ad Being chased by Pom Tanager
44 Bignott's Flycatcher 7- cee on H₂O Davis
44 California Thrasher 1- ae
50 Parasitic Flycatcher 1- ae
56 Common Murres 1-
58
Globocephala sp. 40±10 in 3or 4 subgroups - more or less stationary on surface - feeding? dive time 30-45 second
Mixed flocks - call at feeding - several adult male
no birds ≥ subadults
cut seal line purposing (4)
1400 Common Murres 1- cee
02
05 Br Pel 15- cee N
07 Smell Alert 1-
1430 Br. Phalarope 14 -
large gull 6 -
jaybird? 1 -
1440 B
Zombies - near floating quietly
Mergants.
1510 R-L Kittiwake 1- SSt
1511 Plover 1-
1520
1530
1610
Clear also.
Obs's started again
Globocephala & 75±15 all noted were medium size range moving slowly south flank while 4 or 5 subgroups
1625 Pom Dove 1 T- ad. 1 st p L.
ST-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66