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OBSERVERS:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
Date 29 March 68
Pg.# /
Ship
Direction
SPECIMEN
or
TIME
SPECIES
#
DIR.
BAND NO.
REMARKS
0510
Sunrise
0515
0514
WRS/D
porpoise ca 20 ft. brownish,
'probably Cuvier's beaked whale.
26.8°C
0525
'
38
ST Pat
0600
BTGull
07
JFP
09
B.Phel
25
WRS/P
0700
B.Phel
0705
BTGull
Breakfast.
0800
0804
03
WRSP
Fog - very limited visibility
44
'
0940
0942.
48
Porpoise - Tursiops - Im. fog 150±50
Surf report fog
23.5°C
55
WRS/P
Cuvier's Beaked Whale - 1 good look,
59
'
23.7°C ca.
1010
GPS/P
on the C
11
40
Porpoise - Tursiops . 100±20 24.2°C
55
6PSP
" - 15±3 Photographed Not Tursiops
100
'
small Gt tender.
1005
1150
Following Ship
1151
B.Phel
3 Land
37
"
oft H₂O
1250
6PSP 10 sty II and ship
1355
BTGull
1423
BPhel
1532
BBTB
1445
Ad
1700
Porpoise - photographed first pictures on Blue
Ball*3 27.5°C 30±5
close
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66