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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Crossini
Date 12 March 1968
Pg.#
1
Ship
Direction
SPECIMEN
or
TIME
SPECIES
#
DIR.
BAND NO.
REMARKS
0603
summer
0620
Begin obs.
prob. snipjack.
FF
0725
sooty tern
300 ±10%
ad's.
sooties alternately rising & sweeping lows
to feed over milling tuna. large school
of flying fish taking to air about (or prob.
in advance of) milling time.
Fairy tern
1
Wedge tail
15
dark ph.
Ph.I / fulvi P.
3
Sm. Pterodroma
7
0735
split for breakfast
0745
resume obs.
0845
TFP
1
}
S
Sm. Ptero.
2
0925
WTESP
1
S
1000
m station
1400
begin obs.
winds rising - now up to 35-K.
1452
WTSPD
1
E
prob. leach's.
1457
Blun Petrel
1
S
grey head, black margin to underwings, somewhat
of a dark chest band-
1512
WTSP
2
S
1514
Li
1
E
1600
on station
1818
55
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