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Table 3: East-west sectional Breakdown of Eastern Pacific Grid Bird Populations, 12-22 March, 1967
EAST WEST
NO. % of Grid % of Total Birds per No. % of Grid % of total birds Birds per
Species birds in East square in species in west half square in mile
Total half mile
Black-foot Albatross* 30 64. 7.4 .016 17 36 5.8 .013
Laysan Albatross 2 66 .5 .001 1 34 .3 .001
Fulmar 9 100 2.2 .009 0
Sooty Shearwater 1 100 .25 .001 0
Fork-tailed Petrel 0 2 100 .7 .006
Leach's Storm Petrel 73 52 17.9 .150 66 48 22.4 .195
Red Phalarope 139 48 34.2 .572 152 52 52.3 .896
Pomarine Jaeger 2 100 .5 .002 0
Glaucous-winged Gull 4 100 1.0 .004 0
Herring Gull 98 82 24.0 .101 21 18 7.2 .031
Black-legged Kittiwake 19 66 4.7 .020 10 33 3.4 .015
Rhinoceros Auklet 4 100 1.0 .016 0
Horned Puffin 1 100 .25 .004
Bird sp. 0 4 100 1.4 .006
Shearwater/petrel 3 100 .7 .003 0
Sooty/Slender 1 100 .25 .001 0
Pterodroma sp. 1 15 .25 .001 6 85 2.1 .009
Storm Petrel sp. 10 48 2.5 .021 11 52 3.8 .033
Jaeger sp. 1 100 .25 .001 0
Gull sp. 1 100 .25 .001 0
Alcid sp. 8 90 2.0 .032 1 10 .3 .006
Totals 407 291 100.7 1.211
Total miles 487 339
* The total for Black footed Albatross may not agree with the total number for the grid due to an allowance for those which followed the ship,