R.Clarm 
1964 
Oct. 1 - Honolulu and 1st part day at sea 
* 
Morning spent checking out of hotel, rounding 
up good’s etc, and getting personal belongings 
estaolished on the Shearwater. 
Boao departed at-lpOO, making a spectacular 
190 degree turn in the narrow channel leading 
fi om^ where the boat was docked. Rocks on one side 
of the channel, a large freighter on the other. 
Churned up a great deal of mud, and barely missed 
the other ship. A wacky manuever but they made it. 
Sea watch started at 1520 as we left the 
harbour. Watch schedule, set up i^ith an experienced 
and one not so experienced -watcher in three teams 
which watch for two hours- at a stretch. (Huber and 
I, Ken Amerman and George Wislocki, Binion Amerson 
and Phil Lehner* 
155 Wedge-tailed Shearwaters were seen today 
as the trip began. Most of these birds were 
seen within si^ht of Oahu. Wedgetails were a 
component of every flock seen today (9) but one. 
However only 76 of the total wedgetails were in 
flocks ( %) In the three feeding flocks in 
which they occurred wedgetails ■ in every .instance 
were associated with common noddies which in every 
case were numerically much more common (tending to 
represent about 90 % of the flock total. The earlie 
floCit seen at 1537 had a brown booby associated 
with it. Of the five "travelling" flocks of 
wedgetails, 2 were headed ENE and 3 NE. 
A single White— tailed Tropic Bird was seen 
at 1750 flying ENE. 
Two days out of Oahu - Gilbert-Marshalls 
A relatively slow day. 337 birds were seen. 
Several unusual birds wbre seen including a 
putative Herald’s Petrel and a Skua. 
73 Wedgetails were seen 3 8 of which ( %) 
were in flocks. In the flock seen at 1312 a 
number of birds were sitting on the water.. Some o: 
these Wedgetails were preening ah’d washing in the 
water. 
A single Newell’s Shearwater was seen flying SE 
by Amerson and Lehner at 1017. 
A total of 37 Sooty Shearwaters were seen heading 
in a generally southerly direction’. None in flocks. 
