Brown Booby

Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) (0, 9)

Photo © Benjamint444, GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>, via Wikimedia Commons

STATUS

Tropical Oceans. Polytypic.

OVERVIEW

Four individuals in one year on its debut here is quite astounding.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 2019 Kent Swalecliff, 2CY+, 19th August, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 593; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 115: 88-94, plate 63; BOURC (2022), Ibis 164: 363-368).

2). 2019 Cornwall St Ives and Godrevy Bay, 2CY+, 26th to 31st August, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 593; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 115: 88-94, plates 64 & 65).

3). 2019 At sea Sea area Lundy, ca. 40 km NW of Cape Cornwall, 1CY+, 2nd September, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 593; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 115: 88-94, plate 67).

4). 2019 Cornwall Kynance Cove, The Lizard, 2CY, 2nd to 6th September, photo.

(British Birds 112: 694, plate 695; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 593, plate 399; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 115: 88-94, plate 66).

5). 2020 Isle of Wight ca. 8 km S of Bembridge, 2CY+, 9th May, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 593; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 115: 88-94).

P). 2021 Yorkshire Flamborough Head, adult, 25th December.

(birding information services).

P). 2022 Sussex Hove, immature, taken into care, 2nd January, photo.

(birding information services).

6). 2022 Cornwall Droskyn Castle, Perranporth, picked-up and taken into care, 22nd to 23rd February, died later, photo.

(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 574).

7). 2022 Sussex Hove, 1CY+, taken into care, 2nd January, photo.

(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 574).

8.0). 2023 Lothian Cramond Island, Firth of Forth, immature, 17th August to 19th September; also in Fife.

(M. Griffin, G. McNab, A. Williams, A. McNee, M. Holling & P. Dean Scottish Birds 43: 365-371, plates 310-317; BBRC - Web-WIP-11-3-24).

P). 2023 Fife Fife Ness, immature, 17th August; same as Lothian.

(M. Griffin, G. McNab, A. Williams, A. McNee, M. Holling & P. Dean, Scottish Birds 43: 365-371, plates 310-317).

8.1). 2023 Highland Tarbat Ness, immature, 18th August; same as Lothian, Fife.

(M. Griffin, G. McNab, A. Williams, A. McNee, M. Holling & P. Dean, Scottish Birds 43: 365-371, plates 310-317; BBRC - Web-WIP-11-3-24).

9). 2023 Norfolk Sheringham, 19th August.

(BBRC - Web-WIP-11-3-2).

P). 2023 Isles of Scilly Bishop Rock Lighthouse, immature, 28th August, photo.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Yorkshire Flamborough Head, adult female, 3rd September; presumed same, Filey Brigg, adult, 4th September; same, Hunmanby Gap, adult, 4th to 5th September; same, Sandsend then Whitby, 5th September.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Fife Kinghorn and Pettycur, immature, 5th September; also in Lothian.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Lothian Inchkeith, Firth of Forth, immature, 5th September; same, Cramond, Firth of Forth, 6th September; same as Fife.

(M. Griffin, G. McNab, A. Williams, A. McNee, M. Holling & P. Dean, Scottish Birds 43: 365-371, plates 310-317s).

P). 2023 Cleveland/Co. Durham River Tees, Seaton Snook and Seal Sands, adult female, 6th to 24th September, photo; same as Yorkshire.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Lothian Hound Point, immature, 16th September; same, Cramond Island, 17th to 20th September.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Co. Durham South Shields, adult female, 25th September; presumed same as Yorkshire, Cleveland.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Northumberland Seahouses, Bamburgh, Budle Point and Holy Island, adult female, 25th September; presumed same as Yorkshire, Cleveland, Co. Durham.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Borders Eyemouth, adult female, 25th September, presumed same as Yorkshire, Cleveland, Co. Durham, Northumberland; also in Lothian.

(M. Griffin, G. McNab, A. Williams, A. McNee, M. Holling & P. Dean, Scottish Birds 43: 365-371, plates 310-317).

P). 2023 Lothian Dunbar, adult female, 25th September; presumed same as Yorkshire, Cleveland, Co. Durham, Northumberland.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Devon Brixham pelagic, 1.5 km off Berry Head, adult, 29th September, photo.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Kent Grenham Bay, Birchington, 8th October.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Cleveland/Co. Durham Hartlepool Headland, adult, 2nd November.

(birding information services).

P). 2023 Cornwall Penzance, adult, 18th November, photo.

(birding information services).