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Ship
Direction
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
SPECIMEN
or
Date Pg.#
10 Dec
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0747 Hyull 1 SE Ad.
0835
Humpbacks - 1.d. based on telvision
jump out of the H2O 2X - Blew several times
moving to the west some shot
0900 BFA 1 Following
1130 Fulmar 1- See
1155 RBTB 1- 240 DEG DIS
1210 spots of black on dorsal surface / tail feathers white
bill color not noted
1309 Herring Gull 1 2 or more whales blowing on surface span ? 170 DEG
observed for 5 minutes
1320 11 11 2 AD.
1323 ADS.
1328 Gull spp. 3 Flying fish
41 Fulmar 1- 1st year 2nd AA.
1425 H. Gull 3 DK
1532 BFA 2 1st winter (1) 2nd winter (2) Noted
1533 Hen Gull over white.
1540 BFA 3 - let year
1558 Hen Gull 1-Ad - at 1554 totalled 6 H.Gulls
1645 BFD 4 + entered ADP sheets as
47 Pontogen(?) 1 following x flagged.
55 BFA 5 abundance.
56
Sweet
(partly almost on APP sheet
following
1st 2nd
1)
2)