Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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Dr. Charles A Ely 1963 Location Pacific Ocean - Observer Fleet-King-Batley Carrier Date Dec. 3, 1963 Time 1100 to 1829 Weather Warm Calm am. light breeze swell. Light wind scattered clouds 1st day out Abundance Breeding SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1,000 1,000+ Team 1 Sept 2 Sept 3 Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross 14 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 40 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 1 Brown Booby 3 Red-footed Booby Great Frigatebird 3 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Pewee? Jaeger 12 3 58 in 15 sight rige wady tail ? yager ag? 3 1 105 land coutes at least 60-70 individuals geys & albatros at stern of ship all afternoon florco > T - constantly changing track C4