Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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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).