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11th day
Location Pacific Ocean
Observer Ely-Fleet-King-Brotley-Cunnir Date Dec. 13, 1963 Time 0715 to 1720
Weather High winds directly into bow, low seas-few whitecaps-
partly cloudy-low swells.
Abundance Breeding
SPACES 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Males Eggs Young Remarks
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 36 18 young; 2,2,2,8,10
Christmas I. Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Bonin I. Petrel 5 1,4
Phoenix I. Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Petrel
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby 1
Brown Booby 1
Red-footed Booby 2
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
Dark-ranged Petrel 1 tot. # 50
nr. flocks = 1
Shearwaters 29 3
petrels/shear 2