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King, Warren B. 
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Some display Behavior was noted among the Black-foots. "No 
saying" and mutual neck preeming were seen. 
Apri l 12— At 1315 Black-footed Albatrosses started following the ship. 
Just shortly outside of the harbor, building in numbers to nine by 
late afternoon. During a hydro station two of these were caught in a 
long handled net and banded: FWS numbers 757-60901, 02, at 1830. 
Between 1315 and 1325 a stream of noddy ternB, 52 in all, all headed 
west, corssed the bow, with four mare following up to an hour latex'. 
Sooty Terns were also numerous, in small groups up to ten, mostly 
going east. 
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Onlr one Jaeger was seen. It followed the ship for a while. It 
had a dark breast and white abdomen. Three individual Red-focrted 
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Boobies jwere .seen, adults, close to Oahu and at 1640 forty more were 
feeding in a flock of two hundred Sooty Terns. Thereafter Booties continued 
to be seen in small numbers till dusk. Wedgetails were seen throughout 
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the day, all singles except for a flock of six, all were light phase. 
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Two Bulwer * s Petrels and one ? were seen, flying like small all dark 
petrels. I hope flight pattern will be sufficient to distinguish 
between these and Sooty Petrel, since shape of tail is a lousy field 
mark. At 1629 Dave Bratley saw a large shearwater/petrel with light 
underparts, gray upperparts and white on either tail rump or lower back. 
At 1900 an immature Red -footed Booby perched on the upper wire 
which connects the two masts. He had departed when I arrived on watch 
this morning. Dave and I both queasy. 
