Ely, Charles A., 1963-1964
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12th day aleeson johnston at 0726 Location Pacific Ocean Observer Ely Fleet King Brattleb Currier Date Dec 14 1963 Time 0645 to 1910 Weather strong wind most of day from NE partly cloudy but warm all day few whitecaps SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 10-100 100-1000 1000+ Nests Eggs Young Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1 Christmas Island Shearwater Alderman's Shearwater Bulwer Petrel 2 Phaeton's Petrel Sulphur-crow Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird Masked Booby 2 Brown Booby Red-footed Booby 41 Great Frigatebird 2 Golden Plover Ruddy Turnstone Wandering Tattile Sandpiper Bristle-thighed Curlew Sooty Tern Gray-backed Tern Brown-winged Tern Common Noddy Hawaiian Noddy Blue-gray Noddy Fairy Tern white petrel 1 under seahorse 1 booby eggs 12 boobies 6 total fish = 69 piscators = 4