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TABLE 3. Diurnal abundance of species in the Southern Grid, 2-9 May 1966. 
No. 
Birds/ 
Number 
Status 
Species 
Birds 
Linear Mile 
Collected 
last me 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
137 
0.20 
4 
+ 
Sooty/Slender-billed Shearwater 
20 
0.03 
- 
Kermadec Petrel 
1 
0.001 
V 
Mottled Petrel 
1 
0.001 
- 
Pterodroma sp. 
2 
0.003 
• 
Bulwar’s Petrel 
1 
0.001 
• 
Shearwater-Petrel 
7 
0.01 
- 
White-throated Storm Petrel 
1 
0.001 
* 
Leach’s Storm Petrel 
2 
0.003 
2 
- 
Harcourt’s Storm Petrel 
5 
0.01 
3 
* 
White-rumped Storm Petrels sp.? 
81 
0.12 
- 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
1 
0.001 
Blue-faced Booby 
225 
0.33 
* 
Brown Booby 
9 
0.01 
0 
Red-footed Booby 
33 
0.05 
1 
* 
Lesser Frigatebird 
25 
0.03 
1 
• 
Frigatebird sp.? 
71 
0.11 
- 
Golden Plover 
1 
0.001 
* 
Wandering Tattler 
1 
0.001 
* 
Skua 
1 
0.001 
o 
Sooty Tern 
4469 
6.53 
99 
*> 
Common Noddy 
5 
0.01 
o 
Blue-gray Noddy 
2 
0.003 
o 
White (Fairy) Tern 
18 
0.03 
❖ 
Tern sp.? 
4 
0.006 
* 
Miscellaneous 
4 
0.006 
m 
TOTALS 
5127 
7.50 
110 
+ 
