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BROWN BOOBY FACTS |
Description
The Brown Booby is a dark brown bird with white underside.. Bill cream or grey. Male has blue skin at base of bill.
Other Names
Brown Gannet
Size
75cm
Habitat
Oceans. Roosts on coral cays
Food
dives for fish at sea
Breeding
Nest is scrape in sand on edges of cliff, or on ground on islands. Lays 2-3 greenish white eggs.
Range
Tropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Found offshore in ocean from Queensland to West Australia. Seen on the Great Barrier Reef, and as far south as Moreton Bay off Brisbane. Breeds on numerous tropical islands off West Australia and Queensland.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Procellariiformes | | Family: | Sulidae | | Genus: | Sula | | Species: | leucogaster | | Common Name: | Brown Booby |
Relatives in same Genus
Masked Booby (S. dactylatra)
Red-footed Booby (S. sula)
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