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MASKED BOOBY FACTS |
Description
The Masked Booby is a large white gannet with dark brown flight feathers and brown tail. The bill is bright yellow in male and greenish yellow in female. The feet are blue-grey.
Other Names
Blue-faced Booby, Masked Gannet
Size
74 - 86cm
Habitat
Oceans. Roosts on coral cays
Food
dives for fish at sea
Breeding
Nest is scrape in sand on ground on islands. Lays 2-3 blue-white eggs.
Range
Tropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Found offshore in ocean from Queensland to West Australia. Seen on the Great Barrier Reef. Breeds on tropical islands off Queensland and Western Australia.
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: | dactylatra | | Common Name: | Masked Booby |
Relatives in same Genus
Brown Booby (S. leucogaster)
Red-footed Booby (S. sula)
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