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Sula leucogaster

(white-bellied booby)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Bruinmalgas

Common Names in Basque:

Mascarell Bru

Common Names in Catalan:

Mascarell Bru

Common Names in Czech:

Terej

Common Names in Danish:

Brun Sule

Common Names in Dutch:

Bruine Gent

Common Names in English:

Alcatraz, Booby, booby gannet, Brewster's booby, brown booby, Catesby's booby, common booby, pájara bobo, white-bellied booby, yellow footed booby

Common Names in Estonian:

Pruunsuula

Common Names in Finnish:

Ruskosuula

Common Names in French:

Fou , Fou brun

Common Names in Galician:

Mascarell Bru

Common Names in German:

Braunt, Wei, Weißbauchtölpel

Common Names in Haitian Creole French:

Gwo Fou Gri

Common Names in Hawaiian:

'a

Common Names in Hebrew:

סולה לבנת-בטן

Common Names in Icelandic:

Br

Common Names in Indonesian:

Gangsa Batu Coklat

Common Names in Italian:

Sula Fosca

Common Names in Japanese:

Katsuodori, カツオドリ

Common Names in Latin:

Sula leucogaster

Common Names in Lithuanian:

Arba Rudasis Smigikas

Common Names in Malagasy:

Ngovo

Common Names in Malay:

Dendang Laut

Common Names in Norwegian:

Brunsule

Common Names in Polish:

Gluptak Bialobrzuchy

Common Names in Portuguese:

Alcatraz

Common Names in Portuguese (Brazil):

Alcatraz, Atob

Common Names in Russian:

Бурая олуша

Common Names in Slovenian:

Rjavi Strmoglavec

Common Names in Spanish:

Alcatraz Pardo, Bobo Caf, Bobo café, Bobo café, Piquero Pardo

Common Names in Spanish (Argentine):

Piquero Pardo

Common Names in Spanish (Costa Rica):

Piqueero Moreno

Common Names in Spanish (Dominican Republic):

Bub

Common Names in Spanish (Honduras):

Bobo Caf

Common Names in Spanish (Mexico):

Bobo Caf

Common Names in Spanish (Nicaragua):

Piquero Pardo

Common Names in Spanish (Uruguay):

Piquero Pardo

Common Names in Swedish:

Brun sula

Common Names in Turkish:

Kara S

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Head : uniform dark brown Face : Eye Ring: blue Facial Skin : bright greenish-yellow Bill: bluish gray Neck: brown Body: Belly: white Breast: lower portion white Chest: Uniform dark brown Upperparts: Uniform dark brown Legs : Foot Color: bright greenish-yellow Leg Color: yellowish Tail: deep brown Shape : wedge-shaped Undertail Coverts: white.Basic: Face: Eye Ring: blue Bill: bluish gray Neck: brown Body: Belly: paler brown Chest: Uniform dark brown Upperparts: Uniform dark brown Legs: Foot Color: yellowish Leg Color: yellowish Tail: deep brown Shape: wedge-shaped.Immature: Head: pale gray Face: Eye Ring: blue Facial Skin: slaty Bill: slaty Neck: brown Body: Belly: grahy-brown, mottled with white Chest: Uniform dark brown Upperparts: Uniform dark brown Legs: Foot Color: dull olive Leg Color: yellowish Tail: deep brown Shape: wedge-shaped.Pacific Race Male: Head: pale gray Face: Eye Ring: blue Facial Skin: slaty Bill: slaty Neck: brown Body: Belly: white Chest: Uniform dark brown Upperparts: Uniform dark brown Legs: Foot Color: bright greenish-yellow Leg Color: yellowish Tail: deep brown Shape: wedge-shaped.

Color:

Adult : Dark head , breast, mantle, and tail · White belly cleanly separated from dark breast · Underwings white with dark border · Large, yellow, pointed bill · Yellow legs and feet

Immature : Plumage similar to adult but belly is slightly paler than breast

Size/Age/Growth

About 26 to 29 inches long, with a wingspan of 52 to 59 inches. Adults weigh about 38.4 ounces .

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, coastal waters, freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,013 meters (0 to 16,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is strictly marine , generally feeding on inshore waters . Its diet is comprised mainly of flying-fish and squid, but also some halfbeak (Hemiramphu), mullet (Mugil) and anchovy (Engraulis). Prey is usually caught by plunge-diving and it can also snatch prey off the surface of water. Kleptoparasitism has been observed, mostly by females. Breeding is seasonal in some reas by elsewhere it breeds opportunistically or more or less continuously. Nests are usually built on the ground in the midst of vegetation on rocky islands or coral atolls . Individuals form colonies that are usually smaller than other Sula species1.

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List of Habitats :

Biology

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Reproduction

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) • Sula leucogaster leucogaster • Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Boddaert • Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783) • Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

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Red-Footed Booby, Blue-Footed Booby, Masked Booby, Northern Gannet

Members of the genus Sula

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. abbotti (Black-Necked Swan) · S. bassanus (Northern Gannet) · S. capensis (Cape Gannet) · S. dactylatra (Ascension Masked Booby) · S. dactylatra californica (Masked Booby) · S. dactylatra dactylatra (Masked Booby) · S. dactylatra granti (Masked Booby) · S. dactylatra melanops (Indian Ocean Booby) · S. dactylatra personata (Masked Gannet) · S. granti (Masked Booby) · S. leucogaster (Yellow Footed Booby) · S. leucogaster brewsteri (Brown Booby) · S. leucogaster leucogaster (Brown Booby) · S. nebouxii (Blue-Footed Booby) · S. nebouxii excisa (Blue-Footed Booby) · S. nebouxii nebouxii (Blue-Footed Booby) · S. serrator (Australian Gannet) · S. sula (Red-Footed Booby) · S. sula rubripes (Red Footed Booby) · S. sula sula (Red-Footed Booby) · S. sula websteri (Red-Footed Booby) · S. tasmani (Tasman Booby) · S. variegata (Peruvian Booby)

More Info

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 650.370 meters (2,133.760 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,193.460 based on 21,249 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  2. BirdLife International 2009. Sula leucogaster. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/14/2012