Table 4. Nocturnal abundance of species within the Southern Grid, 27 February- 
5 March# 
Species 
No. Birds 
Birds/ 
linear mile 
No. Collected 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
3 
.006 
Audubon f s Shearwater 
1 
.002 
. - 
Bulwer f s Petrel 
3 
♦006 
• 
Shearwater/Petrel 
7 
.013 
• 
Storm Petrel (White-rump) 
15 
.030 
a» 
Storm Petrel (Unidentified) 
3 
.006 
- 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
1 
.002 
• 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
2 
.004 
- 
Tropicbird species 
4 
.008 
• 
Blue-faced Booby 
8 
.015 
- 
Red-footed Booby 
4 
.008 
1 
Booby (Unidentified) 
3 
.006 
- 
Golden Plover 
3 
♦ 006 
- 
Ruddy Turnstone 
1 
.002 
- 
Shorebird species 
1. 
.002 
• 
Sooty Tern 
85 
.165 
« 
Gray-backed Tern 
1 
.002 
• 
Fairy Tern 
4 
.008 
• 
Tern species 
i 
.002 
«0 
Bird species 
-i 
.017 
■ 
TOTALS 
159 
.310 
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