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Abbott's Booby
Papasula abbotti(Ridgway, 1893)
EndangeredEndemic
- Conservation
- Endangered
- Commonness
- Rare
- Best seen
- Summer
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Abbott's booby is an endangered seabird of the sulid family, which includes gannets and boobies. It is a large booby and is placed within its own monotypic genus. It was first identified from a specimen collected by William Louis Abbott, who discovered it on Assumption Island in 1892.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Christmas I. (south of west Java); formerly Assumption (Aldabra group, south-west Seychelles), Mauritius and Rodrigues (central and east Mascarenes, south-west Indian Ocean); subfossil remains from Solomon Is., Vanuatu, and Marquesas (north-east Polynesia)
- Non-breeding range
- To near Java, south and central Moluccas and south-west of New Guinea
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
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- May
- Jun
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- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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