Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Brown Booby FAMILY - Sulidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Sula leucogaster SYNONYMS - Pelecanus leucogaster - Boddaert, 1783 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 16 Resident, species present all year. 3 Insufficient information, uncertain 15 Of concern: cayes and coastal zone 5 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 12 District Reference Belize 4 Corozal 7 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Shipstern Nature Reserve 5 Shipstern Nature Reserve 7 Half Moon Caye Natural Monument Collected as voucher 9 Half Moon Caye Natural Monument Permanent 8 Private land, see comments 8 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 14 Man of War Cay Permanent 3 Man of War Cay 5 Caye Caulker 6 Hydrologic Association Reference Rio Grande 8 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 13 1-200 m 14 1-200 m 9 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 00' to 88 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 8 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 7 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 8 17 00' to 17 15'; 87 30' to 87 45' 9 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 14 Subtropical moist 13 Marine 9 General Distribution Comments 16* Uncommon mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. Common cayes inc. Ambergris. 8* Manatee Bar 3* Common on Man-O-War Cay. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 McRae, E., 1994. The Birds of Belize's Coastal Zone: Species, Distribution, Current Status, Threats to their Well-being, and Potential Measures to Reduce their Impact. Report to NPAMP. 6 McRae, E. 1993. Preliminary Check-list - Birds of Caye Caulker. 7 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 8 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 9 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 10 Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates 11 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 12 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). 13 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 14 Hinshaw, J. 1997. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology bird holdings through Jun. 1, 1997. 15 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. 16 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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