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10th Day
Location Boulee Atoll
Observer Fly First King Bret & Currier
Date Dec 12, 1963 Time 700 to 1900
Weather almost completely overcast. low sea (for lagoon) west NE 13-kt well N E S ft outlined shores
Abundance Breeding
SPECIES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ New's Eggs Young Remarks
Laysan Albatross
Black footed Albatross
Wedgetailed Shearwater 1
Christmas Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin Petrel
Procellaria Petrel
Buller's Petrel
South Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red footed Booby 2
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone
Wandering Tattler
Sanderling
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern 1
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
White-naped Petrel 1
total # birds = 11
total # flecks = 0
Petrel one ag
stormy/petrel
bird und
Tropic bird/fairy 1