Name:Brown Booby
Alias:Sula leucogaster
Outline:Waterfowl
Family:Suliformes Sulidae Sula
length:64-74cm
Weight:1kg
Life:10-20year
IUCN:LC
Brown Booby, also known as Brown Booby, is a waterfowl and large seabird with 5 subspecies.
Brown Booby often lives in groups and has strong flying ability. They often continue to glide after flapping their wings for a distance, alternating between the two methods. They are also good at swimming and diving. When they rest, they either float on the water and drift with the current, or stand on the rocks on the shore. They are bold in temperament, with loud and rough calls. They mainly feed on various fish. They also eat squid and crustaceans. They mainly forage by diving. They often swim and dive into the water from time to time to chase fish schools. Sometimes they fly over the sea, retract their wings and suddenly dive into the water after finding prey, and then dive to chase prey. Sometimes they track prey hundreds of kilometers away at sea.
Brown boobies are mainly resident birds. They nest on islands in tropical and subtropical oceans and on rocks on the coast. Most of the nests are built on the ground on the edge of cliffs, and sometimes they also nest in small bushes or coral islands. They often form loose nests in groups, usually 2-3 nests together, very close to each other. The nest is made of branches and hay. When courting, the male and female birds each hold a branch on their feet, stand facing each other, and then wrap their necks around each other. Each nest lays 2 eggs, occasionally 3. The color is light green or light blue. The size of the egg is 61×40 mm.
Hunted as food: Local people capture adult birds and steal bird eggs, which are endangered factors for brown boobies. Brown boobies used to be more easily seen in the southeastern coast of China, the Xisha Islands, Hainan Island and other places, but due to human hunting and egg picking, the number has decreased and it is difficult to see.
Listed in the "Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union" (IUCN) 2018 ver 3.1-Least Concern (LC).
Listed in China's "National Key Protected Wildlife List" (February 5, 2021) Level 2.
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