Title
Leewards, Shearwater, March 1965
Related Titles
Contained In:
National Museum of Natural History, Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, records, circa 1961-1973, with data from 1923
Series:
Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project
Series:
SIA RU000245
By
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1965
Notes
This item consists of a folder of data collected at sea by Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program staff, 1964, on the Leeward Survey (Leewards Islands, Hawaii). Materials include at sea daily observations summary, fix data sheets, bird observation data, and climatological data. Bird observations data sheets include entries for time, species, #, dir., hgt., and remarks. Remarks include phase (light or dark), physical observations (color, size, some sketches of bird wing markings), and behavior (feeding, flock, etc.). Fix data sheets include entries for date, time, sunset time, position sunset, time of fix, type of fix, longitude, and latitude. Additional data sheets recorded time, lat., long., pres wea, vis, slp, dry b, wet b, dew pt, hum%, tl sky, opa sky, waves, sea temp, wind s, wind d, course, speed.
Subjects
Field notes
,
Hawaii
,
Leeward Islands
,
North Pacific Ocean
,
Ornithology
,
Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program
,
Sketches
,
United States
BHL Collections
BHL Field Notes Project
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.141614
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