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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
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