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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