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Wirtg . William 0. 
1963—At Sea 
we are getting, some interesting correlations between some weather parameters 
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and bird sightings. I told him we'd be fried to collect this information 
ourselves and he indicated that we probably couldn't do it right so he 
finally agreed that his man would do it every hour as we desire. 
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This trip has been running very smoothly and 1 can't understand this 
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squabbling about what information we c an or cannot hfve--who's doing the 
bird study? I also don't know why the original four of us don't have 
security clearance if it ’ s as necessary as Bushman indicates. And I will 
not have our collection of data for our contractiial work fouled up 
by someone else from BTC. 
We had a slight increase in bird records today} picked up birds with 
the light again tonight also. Though we got only a fleeting glimpse we 
may have had a storm petrel at one time. The wind died down about dusk 
and several sm-'ll rein clouds moved through the area till about 22 o, 
creating a very dark nVht before the moon came up. Perhaps this affected 
bird movement somewhat. 
0100 
L 13°32» 7^ 170053' 
0400 
L 13°81»7) 170*34 * 
course 045° headed ME 
0630 
L 14°10* ^ 17 028' 
07 1 6 
sunrise 
0730 
Shearwater sp.? 
& 
0758 
MR Petrel? 
one 
0800 
L 14°18* <) 170°18» 
0826 
Xmas I, Shearwater 
one 
0826 
BP. Petrel 
one 
off starboard bow 
NW white underp" rts and around head 
'SW headed HP 
WSW headed E 
