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Ship
Direction
N
5-SE 150°
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
SPECIMEN
or
+ 7 Time
OBSERVERS:
Crosain
Date 20 Feb 1968
Pg.# 1
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0700 Begin obs., sky heavily over cast, following
0721 Sunrise sea.
0733 Larus sp. 1 W imm. = 1st year bird; western - Herring - cal. size.
0746 split for break fast.
0752 resume watch.
0758 Xantus Dlus 1 E close in.
0801 West. Gull 1 ad.
0803 " " 1 N ad.
0807 " " 1 Oll ad. came in from W to check a box & garbage
0815 " " 1 Ol dumped from ship.
0819 " " 2 W ad. circling ship.
ad's.
0829 Calif.or Ring-bill Gull 1 landed on H2O - not Herring by size. ad.
0836 West. Gull 2 ad's following ship, picking up garbage.
0839 Calif.Gull 1 joined 2 westerns, Ad.(still showing few dark
0843 West Gull feathers on head -
1 Ad joined 2 west Ad's & Calif. ad., all circling ship.
0847 " 1 ad. came from E, joined others.
0848 Calif." 1 2nd year bird - joined others
0855 West. Gull 2 w ad's, joined others.
0905 Larus sp 1 imm. large, prob. Herring or WEST.
0917 West. Gull 3 W ad's circled ship once.
0928 " " 1 W ad.
0935 Calif Gull 2 O ad's came from E.
0935 West Gull 3 Oen ad's
Now very difficult to determine when new birds are
coming in. Ca' 15 ± 3 birds are to be seen behind & off
to west side of ship. Only when birds can be seen coming
in from the E (shoreward) are they counted. That the
same birds are following ship could determined by
oddly marked subad.(ad. with a few dark head feathers
etc.) birds which keep reappearing
0955 Herring Gull 1 Oe 2nd yr. bird
1005 West. Gull 2 W ad's.
1012 Calif. Gull 3 Cle 2 ad's, 1 barely ad. showing brownish feathers
1015 " " ? 1 Cee on neck and one dark feather in tail. greenish less on all.
1019 West. Gulls: 1 on H2O 2nd year bird.
1035 Calif. " 1 W 1st yr. bird.
ad. from shoreward, joined ship followers.
1045 1st flying fish
1112 West Gull 1 CO 2nd yr. bird.
1119 Larus sp. 1 Clee 1st yr. bird. large, prob. west.
1137 alcid sp. 1 E dark above, pale below, but not sharply separated,
prob. Cassin's auklet.
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66