EAC 6, Shearwater, April 1967
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Ship Direction SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E OBSERVERS: Date 8 April 67 Pg.# 1 SPECIMEN or TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0603 Sunrise 0615 begin observations 0630 BFA 1 Following. 0640 Spot. Shear 1 N 0704 Storm Pet 1 ccc 0720 WRSP 1 (o) exceptionally white rump, no black dividing line seen although quite close. Flight not typical Leach's; possibly 0730 WRSP 3 N a Harcourt's or Wilson's. 0740 " 1 N all looked like Leach's. 0744 " 1 N (crossed out) 0810 WRSP 1 (o) 0815 Red Phal. 1 N 0910 WRSP 1 cc 0930 cc To S 0933 Red Phal 1 NW 0936 WRSP 2 ccc 0950 Bird sp 1 cc Probably Phalarope 1000 R. Phal 6 NW 1003 " 1 NW 1020 WRSP 1 (o) black dividing line seen 1050 BFA 2 Following 1200 Shear/Pet 1 NW Possibly, Pterodroma - flow like wedge-tail but was 1217 " 1 - too dist'd for any color. 1235 Bird 1 W distant large white - size of Gull, all white to barely capt. 1310 change course to E 1400 one medium sized green fishball 1432 WRSP 2 (o) 1455 WRSP 1 8 1511 R. Phalarope 1 ccc 1600 R.Phel. 1 N Call T.J. Lewis 1604 " 2 (o) 1604 WRSP 1 (oo) 1640 Shear/Pet 1 (O) 1752 WRSP 1 (o) 1831 WRSP / (o) 1847 SUNSET; CLOSE OBS. SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66