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and if total area of the grid is 450,000 swuare miles then there were 
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5,000 Sooty Shearwaters in the grid today or 750,000 in a twenty-four 
hour period, assuming nocturnal activities are roughly similar to their 
diurnal ones . Thats quite a few birds. Just four loosely packed flocks 
were noted, almost not flocks at all of seven, eight, eight and twenty. 
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Several were seen circling, but not feeding, in a feeding flock of 
Sooty Terns. All were heading north car northwest depending on how the 
ship was turned. None came closer than 200 yards. Silver linings were 
observed on numerous birds all day, when the light was right. Every 
bird we saw the wing linings of had silver linings. Two Harcourt'e SP 
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both type B. Two light phase Wed get ails. Seven shorebirds, similar 
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to those seen previously, small and light colored. 
Several Sooty Tern flocks, twenty- five, twenty-five and twelve. 
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one of which had a Frigate over it. 
Apri l 4 — Fairly good activity today, but none of it due to Sooty Shearwaters 
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Black- footed Albatross were with us at dawn (4), increased to 4o during 
a hpflro station at 1510, one of Which had a silver by land on left leg. 
It was on the verge of being caught in the net when the ship all day, 
but never more than three at a time, usually two or one. 
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Wedgetalls present in small numbers, 25 in all, all day. All 
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were light phase. Sooty Terns were the most numerous, totaling 229 
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with flocks of 115, 60, 15, 6, 6 . In addition, they came by in ones 
and two’s all day. Two of the flocks had four and one Fairy Terns 
respectively connected with them. A Pomarine Jaeger was seen at 0954, 
pretty far from land. Alone Red -tailed Tropicbird was seen at 1105. 
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