Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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3rd Day out Location Pacific Ocean Observer Ely Fleet King - Bratley - Currier Date Dec 5, 1963 Time 0630 to 1850 Weather warm to hot with little wind - large swell but for now partly cloudy to clear. drift comes in from near dust. SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Adults Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 4 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby 1 Red-footed Booby 3 Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 1 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Harcourt Storm Petrel 6 white-hocked Petrel 1 cell - on they last night Japanese Whiteeye 3 total # birds = 23 total # hawks = 0 petrels/alarawaters 3 tanbora? 1