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Species Accounts - Grid 
Laysan Albatross Diomedea immutabilis * ft Obs. = 0 
No Laysans were observed during the survey. 
Black-footed Albatross Diomedea nigripes ft Obs. = 8 
The extremely low density (lowest of all surveys) is curious but 
not entirely unexpected. Total numbers reached a peak in early December 
(see EGS $l 8 ), then dropped markedly over the two subsequent surveys 
(EGS ftl 9 and the present survey). EGS ftl and ft 2 showed a similar rapid' 
decline from late January to February in 1967• 
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Black-foots were recorded from only three subdivisions, R, X, and Z. 
I would hazard a guess that this scanty information suggests that birds 
have shifted to the south. Ail eight birds were dark-rumped individuals. 
Fulmar Fulmar glacialis 
# Obs. = 30 
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0 
• 17 
0 
.02 
0 
Birds/linear 
0 
0 
.01 
• 
Fulmar numbers on the overall Grid do not appear to have dropped 
significantly as yet, although the density peak has shifted even more to 
the north (first noted in late December). Ninety-three percent of the 
birds were seen in the north half with over 50 percent being recorded in 
section ”T." Of the 28 birds with color phase recorded 25 (90 percent) 
were dark and one each light, intermediate, and "double dark" (see 
Harrington EGS winter r 67 reports). 
Sooty Shearwater Fuffinus griseus ft Obs. = 1 
After the secondary migration peak noted in late November (see 
EGS ftl!) Grid numbers have dropped markedly and regularly. Southward 
movement evidently had all but ceased by mid-December and the distribu¬ 
tion suggests a crowding of birds toward the coast. I suspect a small 
population of birds winters close to the coast during the northern winter. 
In addition to the single positive identification in area Z, some of the 
10 incompletely identified shearwater/petrels may very well have been 
this species. 
Herald/Kermahec Petrel ft Obs. = 1 
A light-phase bird,probably one or the other of the above-named, 
was observed in section "R" on 5 January. 
Fork-tailed Petrel Oceanodroma furcata 
0 0 35 
3 0 0 
/ 0 0 - 0 
ft- Observed in each section 
ft Obs. = 58 
