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Table 5. Diurnal Abundance of Species in the Southern Grid 15-24 Sept. 1966. 
‘ No. Birds/ No. Status over 
Species Birds Linear Mi. Collected Last Month 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
.005 
+ 
Sooty Shearwater 
8 
.009 
+ 
Slender-billed Shearwater 
13,235 
15.984 
11 
•f 
Sooty/Slender-billed Shear. 
7,808 
9.551 
+ 
Christmas Island Shear. 
1 
.001 
+ 
Audubon f s Shearwater 
1 
.001 
+ 
Juan Fernandez Petrel 
2 
.002 
0 
Pterodroma externa 
2 
.002 
+ 
Phoenix Is./Tahitian Petrel 
2 
.002 
- 
Black-winged Petrel 
12 
.014 
1 
- 
Pterodroma hypoleuca 
4 
.005 
White-winged Petrel 
3 
.004 
1 
- 
Pterodroma species 
18 
.022 
+ 
Bulwer's Petrel 
2 
.002 
0 
Shearwater-Petrel 
25 
.030 
+ 
Leach's Storm Petrel 
22 
.027 
8 
+ 
Storm Petrel species 
88 
.106 
+ 
Fed-tailed Tropicbird 
l6 
.012 
1 
- 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
3 
.004 
+ 
Blue-faced Booby 
393 
.476 
+ 
Brown Booby 
15 
.018 
+ 
Fed-footed Booby 
31 
.037 
0 
Great Frigatebird 
1 
.001 
- 
Lesser Frigatebird 
218 
.263 
+ 
Frigatebird Species 
285 
.344 
- 
Golden Plover 
2 
.002 
- 
Fuddy Turnstone 
4 
.005 
- 
Sooty Tern 
5,171 
6.233 
10 
+ 
Common Noddy Tern 
34 
.041 
+ 
Blue-grey Noddy Tern 
1 
.001 
+ 
Fairy Tern 
30 
.036 
+ 
Tern species 
4 
.005 
+ 
Jaeger species 
1 
.001 
+ 
Bird species 
4 
.005 
— 
TOTALS 
27,450 
33.14 
32 
+ 
