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5th day
Location Pacific Ocean
Observer Ely-Fleet-King Bratley-Currier Date Jan. 10, 1963 Time 0645 to 1845
Weather Calm sting NW winds (t 25 K) light swell (t 15 ft) heavy seas, partly overcast, very hazy. sea shore visibility very poor.
Species Abundance Breeding
1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ nests egts Young Remarks
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 3
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petro.
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby 2
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sandpiling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
White-necked Petrel 1
total adults = 10
total chicks = 0
unlisted? 2
Storms ag 1
shearwater/petrel 1