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April 1 3 — 3 lx Bulwer's Petrels today and one ? One was flushed from 
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water a^rsat p &kln cax surface 150 yards from ship. Wedgetail noted 
-I "in above Individual. Numerous Sooty Terns 120* 15 Including four 
■■ feeding flocks at least one of which was feeding cm skipjack . A dark 
bodied, white headed tern seen. Didn't look like noddy. More like 
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immature Sooty with mature Sooty head . 
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■/ -Flock of twelve Wedgetail Slearwaters in with fifty Sooty Terns 
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feeding or skipjack. Six other individuals; all were light phase. 
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Sooty Shearwaters seen today, only nine and for a short space of 
time 0696 to 0717. White rump not observed on any of the three storm 
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petrels seen today, but they were only seen imperfectly. One frigate se 
along, a female adult. 
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; AT 1845 an immature Red-footed Booby circled ship several times 
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ab it interested in roosting for night. 
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One flock contained 30* 5 Sooty Terns, one plus Wedgetails, two 
plus shearwater /petrels , one of which was all dark, and a storm petrel. 
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Apr il 14 — Three Bulwer’s Petrels today, one in company of Harcourt’s 
Storm Petrel Type B. One feeding flock of Sooty Terns, 40+ 10 seen at 
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a distance. 
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Two Newell's Shearwaters both clearly seen, unmistakeable in black- 
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white contrast and f llghtpattern . A Masked Booby followed for several 
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hours today, putting on a fancy diving exhibit, going out of sight 
underwater on erne occasion, appearing several seconds later with fish. 
Bird was brown headed and brown uppemecked with heavy brown splotching 
on back. Dived both from very oblique angle and stea ight down from 
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30* feet with no attempt to slow down. 
