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"th day
Location Pacific Ocea.
Date June 15, 1963 Time 0700 to 1850
Observer Elg., Fleet, King, Bratley, Currier
Weather partly cloudy - 15 K. wind from N.E. and whitecaps
fairly calm
SPECIES Abundance Breeding
2-10 10-100 100-1000 1000 No. Yes Yrs.
Remarks
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross 1
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 4
Christmas Island Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Brewer's Petrel 2
Phoenix Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Sooty Tern
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Warbling Vettler
Sandpiper
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Sooty Tern
Gray-backed Tern
Brown-winged Tern
Common Noddy
Hawaiian Noddy
Blue-gray Noddy
Fairy Tern
fished chig nearly all day.
total + fresh = 12
total # fresh = 0
mud shearwater
+ gulls 3