Hello NY and RI birders, I just received an email with photo of an adult BROWN BOOBY that landed aboard a commercial fishing boat ~30 miles south of Block Island on Feb 24th. The crew assumed the bird injured and "took him in" for 2 and a half days, releasing the bird on the 27th while approx. 4 miles east of Block Island. At that point the bird "seemed in good health."
I am in contact with the fisherman who correctly identified it as a Brown Booby and will put him in contact with the appropriate records committee(s). There is also apparently video of the fishermen feeding the booby. This would have seemed absurd just a few years ago, but with the recent spate of BRBO wandering up the coast perhaps the only thing really surprising about this is the time of year involved. Here in CT the Avian Records Committee of Connecticut is currently in the midst of voting on our first state record of Brown Booby that occurred just last May: http://www.shorebirder.com/2013/05/brown-booby-norwalk-ct.html Nick Nick Bonomo Wallingford, CT www.shorebirder.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
