Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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9th Day Location Pacific Ocean Observer Elly Fleet King Bradley-Currier Date Dec. 11, 1963 Time 0715 to 1905 Weather Present, still high winds + strong waves - clearing toward evening scattered showers visibility fair to good SPECIES Abundance Breeding 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Males Females Young Remarks Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedgetailed Shearwater 40 10 singles, 2, 2, 2, 24 Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel 3 Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Masked Booby 1 Brown Booby Red-footed Booby 5 all singles Great Frigatebird Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattler Sandpiper 8-Plumaged Dunlin Sooty Tern Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern Dark-rumped Petrel 2 White-necked Petrel 3 Harrcourt's Petrel 1 total # birds: 61 total # flocks: 1 S terniformes 2 shearwater / petrels 1 small dark shore 1 white - ruck? 1