Laysan albatrosses - saw 4 they do not follow ship. 
Red-tailed tropicbird - pass ship very quickly. 
White-tailed tropicbird - 1 
Frigate - bird ~ 1 
Booby sp? - 2 seen diving with sooty tern (wow) 
Poraarine jaeger - common as we approached Oahu. 
Sooty tern - common at sea, in flocks to 50 or so. a little feeding activitty 
observed . 
Gray- backed tern - seen 
Ruddt turnstone - 1 approached ship from south, circled, and headed north. 
We were probably no more than thirty miles from one or the other of the 
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islands ar any time. This may account for the large number of sooty terns 
seen (-240). 
XCounts for D. nigipes will be Inaccurate dur to inability to determine 
extent of ship-following. This is also true for jaegers apparently 
followed ship furhter out than they picked us up on return*. 
Saw several whales, 1 porpoise. 
Feb. 6s Sunrise 0706. Sunset 1826. Time zone - plus 10 W. 
Feb. 20: Set up nets an ! 7AM to catch Hawaiian noddies. Wets worked very 
well but unsuccessful in obtaining blood from birds even when cut open and 
needle directed into heart. Got less than 2 mi. from each bird. Even a con¬ 
fined sample of 5 birds was hardly large enough to bother with. 
The noddies were collecting nest material and carrting it up into the 
trees. All 10 collected were males, indicating that the females were all on 
the nest. 
< 0900 Me Daniel, Gooden, McFall, Bill and Iflew to Pearl Hermes. The 
weather was much better. We would have been able to get ashore had us been 
there. The main channel is very good, the small boat channel seems okey and 
the SE approach to Southeast J. looks goods. 
