15th day Location Cooki Isom Observer Fy, Fleet, King, Bratley-Currion Date Dec. 17, 1963 Time 0645 to 1430 Weather cool and NE wind; sea state no whitecaps; partly cloudy remarks show during night SPECIES Abundance Breeding Remarks 1-10 11-50 51-100 100+ + Nest/4 # of Total Laysan Albatross Black-footed Albatross 8 Wedge-tailed Shearwater "" sightings of 20 hrs Christmas I. Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Bonin I. Petrel Phoenix I. Petrel Bulwer's Petrel Sooty Petrel Red-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby ? 1 Great Frigatebird 1 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 Pomarine Jaeger 5 total of "" sightings "" hrs. Total 17 birds Nests 1 - falling down.