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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