Question....


Lisa D. Walker, (Feather Forestwalker)
 

Hi all!

I pulled out my first field guide to birds and leafed through it to see what I had marked as birds I had seen and for some stupid reason, I had BROWN BOOBY listed as at the mouth of the Navarro River back in 1986. I don't remember *ever* seeing a BROWN BOOBY in my life?! I checked eBird and the earliest record seems to be 2015 - at least, with photos. So, what I want to know is, has anyone seen a BROWN BOOBY on the Mendocino coast back in 1986?

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Robert Keiffer
 

Lisa, The first accepted record of Brown Booby for Mendocino County was an adult bird seen 4 miles off Bear Harbor on a Shearwater Journeys pelagic trip on 21 Sept 2003. The second accepted record was an adult male seen perched on a nearshore rock at Bear Harbor on 8 August 2006 by Jerry White. There have been several sightings since …. Check eBird records. Good birding. Bob Keiffer. Hopland, Mendocino County rjkeiffer@...

On Feb 19, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Lisa D. Walker, (Feather Forestwalker) <feather@...> wrote:

Hi all!

I pulled out my first field guide to birds and leafed through it to see what I had marked as birds I had seen and for some stupid reason, I had BROWN BOOBY listed as at the mouth of the Navarro River back in 1986. I don't remember *ever* seeing a BROWN BOOBY in my life?! I checked eBird and the earliest record seems to be 2015 - at least, with photos. So, what I want to know is, has anyone seen a BROWN BOOBY on the Mendocino coast back in 1986?

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