Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Masked Booby

  FAMILY -               Sulidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Sula dactylatra

  REFERENCES - 1 and 2

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Accidental-s not part of normal range.                   8
  Insufficient information, uncertain                        9
  Accidental-Bze not part of normal range.                   4
  Accidental-Bze not part of normal range.                   8
  Accidental-Bze not part of normal range.                   9
  U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty                                 7
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Coastal zone, not including cayes.                                          2
  Ambergris Cay                                                               3
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15'           2
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  8* Accidental cayes inc. Ambergris.
  4* Accidental, single record off shore cayes.
  3* Single bird seen May 13, 1992.
  2* Several miles east of Belize

  References

  1  A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed.
  
  2  Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British
     Honduras.  Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U.
  
  3  Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1992. Distributional Notes and New Species
     Records in Belize.  Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History
     Society. 1(2):6-25.
  
  4  Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of
     Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12.
  
  5  Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica.
     Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates
  
  6  Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and
     Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press.
  
  7  Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List
     of Migratory Birds.  U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794.
     (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird
     Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711).
  
  8  Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of
     the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
  
  9  Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize,
     Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern.  Report to Programme for
     Belize/TNC Wings of America Program.