Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
The brown booby is a superb diver. It is the most widespread booby and has distinct color variations. Most brown boobies are brown all over, apart from a white underside.
Brown booby Sula leucogaster
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Length: 23 inches Wingspan: 56 inches
Sexes similar
Pelagic bird only coming ashore to breed
Large bird that dives for fish from air
Takes 2 to 3 years to reach adult plumage ...
Brown Booby
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Brown Booby
Sula leucogaster (Boddaert)
Status One record. It was found more or less stranded on a rocky ledge known as the Salvages, at Blanche, Shelburne County on 28 July 1941 by Albert Dixon Summers.
Brown Booby
Booby is a common name for some members of the family Sulidae, large, streamlined sea birds. Tropical and subtropical members of the family are called boobies; those of northern waters are called gannets.
Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster
Brewster's Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster brewsteri
Fossils ...
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster. Occasional during spring, summer, and fall. Found in the Gulf and along outer coast.
Brown Booby
rare non-breeding, resident (extirpated breeder)
Red-footed Booby ...
Brown booby (Sula leucogaster)
Brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Great frigatebird (Fregata minor)
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
Red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis) ...
The brown booby is around half the size of the blue-footed booby and is found in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf Of Mexico. The brown booby has a black head and back and a white belly, short wings and a long tail.
Juvenile Brown Booby resembles juvenile Blue-footed Booby, but has darker chest and neck, and shows sharp cutoff between chest and belly.
Red-footed Booby has white back, a cleanly white or yellowish head, and a white tail.
South Polar Skua may be one of the most likely pelagic rarities. Brown Booby, Red-footed Booby, Red Phalarope, Long-tailed Jaeger, Roseate Tern, Brown Noddy, ...
Sula leucogaster, Brown Booby
Synanceia verrucosa, Reef Stonefish
Synanceia horrida, Estuarine Stonefish
Synodus variegatus, Variegated Lizardfish
Synodus binotatus, Twospot Lizardfish
Synodus dermatogenys, Sand Lizardfish ...
 See also: Booby, Gannet, Red-footed Booby, Masked booby, Frigatebird
  
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