Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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Location Pacific Ocean 7th day Observer Ely - Fleet - King-Dietzgen-Cuninon Date Dec. 9, 1963 Time 0715 to 1925 Weather clear to partly cloudy warm to hot wind to 15 knots low clouds + few whalers cold food coming in from NW at dusk. SPECIES Abundant Breeding Remarks 1-99 100-999 1000+ None Pairs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 4 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel 3 Phoenix I. Petrel X Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird 3 White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 5 Brown Booby Red-footed Booby 1 Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sanderling Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Harvourt S. Petrel 1 Kermader Petrel 1 white-mocked Petrel ? red I. T. frid? 2 wedgetail? 5 storm petrel? 1 small bird unknown 1 shearwater/petrel 2 total birds = 36 total # florks = 0