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Brown Booby

Brown Booby - Adult and juvenile

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Raso islet, from a boat

Country image taken

» Cape Verde Islands

Date

» March, 2018

Equipment

» Pentax K-m with zoom Tamron 70-300 mm

Bird Species

»Sula leucogaster - Brown Booby

Bird Species (French)

»Fou brun

Bird Family

»Sulidae - Gannet, Booby

Bird Group

»Suliformes Frigatebirds, Cormorants, Shags, Gannets, Boobies, Darters

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Note the adult in flight and the immature bird standing on the rocks. Image obtained during tour of AviFauna (Sweden), 28 February - 10 March 2018. The colony of Raso is one of the most important for this species in the Cape Verde Islands, where we could count from a boat about 150 birds in March 2018.

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