National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1961-1973 : McKean, draft & tables.
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The Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (POBSP) was initiated in 1962 when the Smithsonian Institution entered into a grant agreement with the Department of Defense. From January 1963 through June 1969 Smithsonian Institution employees undertook biological surveys in an area of the Pacific Ocean spanning the equator and extending from latitude 30 degrees north to 10 degrees south and from longitude 150 degrees east to 180 degrees west, an area dotted with clusters of islands and atolls. The major goals of the program were to learn what plants and animals occurred on the islands, the seasonal variations in their numbers and reproductive activities, and the distribution and population of the pelagic birds of that area. Emphasis was placed on the banding of birds in an effort to determine migration, distribution, and abundance of pelagic sea birds. During the six and a half years of field work 1,800,000 birds were banded; approximately 150,000 observations of pelagic birds at sea were made; and biological surveys of varying intensity were made on several islands. The present folder includes field notes on the status of populations of pelagic birds of McKean Island as observed by the POBSP. The field notes are accompanied by data from 1964-1965 on birds populations of several other Pacific Islands, including the bristle-thighed curlew, the red-footed booby and wedge-tailed shearwater.
Date Range
1964-1965
Start Date
1964
End Date
1965
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Topic
- Bird banding
- Boobies (Birds)
- Curlews
- Ornithology--Oceania
- Birds--Counting
- Birds--Oceania
- Sea birds
Place
- Pacific Ocean
- Kiribati
- Oceania
- Phoenix Islands
Form/Genre
- Fieldbook record
- Field notes
Accession #
SIA Acc. 83-126
Collection name
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program field research records, 1961-1973
Physical Description
1 folder
Physical Location
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation
Box 2, folder 41