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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