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Location Pacific Ocean - 2nd layout
Observer Fly Fleet King Bratley Curtis Date Dec. 4, 1963 Time 0630 to 1850
Weather warm with very little wind - fair partly cloudy to clear
with large swells but few waves.
SPECIES Abundance Breeding
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young
Remarks
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross 3 15 adults 11 sightings (1-3)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 57 39 sightings (1-8)
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel 3
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-tailed Tropicbird 1
Masked Booby
Brown Booby 1
Red-footed Booby 1 5 sightings - good all were dead
Great Frigatebird 3
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderting
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 25 6 sightings (1-14)
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern 22 6 sightings (1-12)
Harrocutt Storm Petrel 4
shearwater sp? 5
tern sp? 3
storm pet sp? 2 196 birds (great considerable
concentration).
shearw/petrel 1 8 flocks.
white-necked Petrel 2
Japanese White-eye 43 (42, 1) - 2 coys nest moving
1 of chicks had seen bird on deck
and before lunch (cox).