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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