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OBSERVERS:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
Date 10 Feb 1967
Pg.# 1
Ship Direction
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0715 sunrise begin observ.
0747 M. Frigat 3 ♂ Ad ♀ chasing flying fish
Cook's Pet Shear-Pet
0808 1 ♂ P. humerani size, flew like a shorebird
0857 WRSP 1 ♂
1131 WRSP 1 ♂
1227 WRSP 1 ♂ flying along edge of two H2O masses, one lighter than the other a distinct line at convergence that ran SSE - NNE from Horizon to horizon
1236 WRSP 1 ♂
1237 Cook's Pet 2 ♂ flew of H2O. "Blue" W" quite distinct, light head, also white flash on dorsal primaries like Pt neglecta. Ventral wing surface White. Flight unlike any Pterodroma, shorebird like, giving the appearance of large Phalacropter.
1246 WRSP 2 ♂ Wings bowed much more than any Pterodroma, flight consists of a few downward emphised flaps and a sailing with occasional banking in the sail.
1259 Leach's St.Pet 1 ♂
1308 Leach's St.Pet 1 ♂
1316 Leach's St.Pet 1 ♂
1325 Leach's St.Pet 1 ♂
1341 Leach's St.Pet 2 ♂ Following Green or Loggerhead
1348 Turtle 1
1413
1444 Leach's St.Pet 1 ♂ School of 40 fish 12 - 16 inches Jumping
1500 stop watch
1700 Resume watch
1835 sunset
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66