Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE Pg.
25Jan/1967
6, 7, 3 15
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0644 Sunrise
0645 B-F Alba 1 Following this 07-1 07-100% clear
0726 Calif Gull 1 2 nd year following ship 08-2 rain or margin
0755 BFA lba 1 .10-.08-90%.
Following ship Total of 2 11-0 clearing
0900 12-0 no rain
1100 Stop for station. 13-1 04-26%
1200 Still on station. 14-0 sunny
1225 Herring Gull 1 Brea'd.
Resume. 1 CG still following
3rd year bird almost adult - attracted 10-15 10% cloudy + hazy
to ship. leg color seen. 17-2 16-20%cloudy
1305 Off station - Underway again.
1355
1410 Larus argentatus 1 Flying Fish.
1420 Read's Type 1 following ship. Flesh-colored
1426 Read's Type 1 legs light eye. 2nd year till station
1443 Read's SP 1 Black dividing line seen.
1445
1530 Stop for station.
1600 Read's Type 1 Underway
1601 Break for Drills.
1620
1620 2 BFA lba following.
1623 Manx Shear 1 W
1631 Herring? Gull 2 Immatures Following ship for 15 min
1650 Read's Type 1
1653 Storm Pet 1 W
1655 Storm Pet 2 NW
1705 Read's Type 1 W
1705 Storm Peld 1
1725 Sunset
Read's 1 BFA-2
Reads-Type 5 Calif Gull-1
Storm 4 Herring 2
Manx 1 Herring? 2
18