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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