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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
Ship Direction
OBSERVERS:
TIL
Light winds, 12/5TS.
Larger squalls all around
To Rain West Day
Date Pg.#
23 March 68
1
SPECIMEN
or
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
FF
604
= =
Underway
0700
Breakfast
15
edge of Squall
56 Fair Tern 1V e
803 Sooty Tern 1V ee
10 WBSP 2V Tm. " " "
0924 Sootytern 5V cee
Feeding Ad small bait fish jumping in Rain
25 St. Pet 1V ee
Fr. Rain
45 WBSP 4V oe
1065 " 1V CO
30
Lunch & station
1245
1311 BTTB 1V ee Our ship SAD for Rain
25 WBSP 1V cee
1400
+ Whale - Balaenoptera - Ca 30 ft.
16 LWBS P 6V ee 26.8 C dorsed-like fin backs, color black-Northw
Color seen, Blow ca. 5-6ft
Off H2O
station
27
44
Whale! - Balaenoptera - Ca 30-40 ft. 27.0 C
Possibly humpbacks -
1520
21
Whale - sperm? - Sccall, distint, only head
core out - did not dine.
38 Black Rot 1V ee Following ships
47 St. Ret 1V cee
51 R. Phel 2V oe LWBSP 2V o
Off H2O - on small slicis
1624 WBSP 3V cee
on station
30
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66