Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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Location Pacific Ocean - 4th day out Observer Fly-Fleet: King; Stratig-Curryer Date March 6, 1953 Time 0700 to 1853 Weather Rain or squalls most of day, partly cloudy to overcast moments. Visibility 2km. strong winds rough seas SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Pairs Young Remarks Laysan Albatross 1 Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 13 1-8 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel 8 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby Brown Booby 1 Red-footed Booby 69 Great Frigatebird 4 4 singles - flock of 30, 35 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern 26 Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Hawaiian Silver Petrel 5 total albatross = 385 White-necked Petrel 4 total # plesks = 6 Sooty Shearwater? 1 red-footed booby? 6 booby ag? 4 und. stated shearwater sandy storm petrel' 1 storm petrel? 1 vagrant bird? 1 und. stated 1