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180°
OBSERVERS:
Crossin
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
Date 29 Feb 1968
Pg.# I
Ship Direction
SPECIMEN or BAND NO. REMARKS
TIME SPECIES # DIR.
TF 0634 Bay in obs. cloudy, sea choppin' w/ long ground swell
0635 Pom Jaeger 1 SE dark phase
0704 Sooty Tern 15 E ad's.
0711 Pale-foot Shear 1 E
0720 Red-footed Booby 3 Imm. foll. ship, dachos.
0730 Pom. Jaeger 1 1st brk.
split for breakfast
0800 Drift station start, will run until 1700
1030 Skiff in the
1530 Skiff out thro' 9 Leach's St Pet: all seen
collected over Harcourt's St Pet owl slide.
1 Red-footed Booby as the
1 Wedgetail LP activated drift
2 Red-foot Booby Imm. was on 3-4 miles
3 Sooty Tern ad. during dark time
3 Phalarope sp
1 New Zealand Shear
1 Harcourt's sp
1 Leach's sp
1650 open obs.
1707 Leach's SP 3
1708 Red-foot Booby 4 off H20, Imm's dark.
1709 Leach's SP 3 off H20
1720 " " 2
1725 " " 3
1736 " " 2
1738 " " 1 N
1807 Red-footed Booby 1 SE Imm. dark.
1809 Sunset.