SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY

Trinidad & Tobago Field Naturalists' Club    Southeastern Caribbean Bird Alert    Trinidad & Tobago Rare Bird Committee

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)

A                                                                         B                                         C

Adults at St. Giles Islands, Tobago, 11 January 1998 (A; TTRBC 1999-19) and 8 October 2001 (B-C). Photos © by Charles Lowe (A) and Floyd Hayes (B-C). Note the dark facial 'mask' and black tail, which distinguish this species from the smaller, white-morph Red-footed Booby (S. sula). St. Giles Island is the only locality in T&T where this species has been recorded regularly since first being found by Richard ffrench on 29 September 1995 (TTRBC 1996-11).