help ID seabirds in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil? (1 Viewer)

sandrinhalee

bird happy

• Jul 1, 2008

• #1

Here are two photos of birds I saw on my honeymoon before I was really interested in birding. It was fun to scrounge up these pictures. I think one is a red-footed booby? The other one with the horses, I don't know.

Also, I posted a video of a diving bird -- can anyone tell what it is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLNwg8csj4E

Unfortunately the uploaded quality is not very good. I was wondering if it is a magnificent frigatebird, since I'd seen some of those around.

(My husband is the one going "boom!" in the background of the video as the birds dive into the water. He really enjoyed them.)

 

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totaljohn

man-e-faces

• Jul 1, 2008

• #2

first pic looks like cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis), although i had no idea they had reached down as far as brazil. i don't know much about boobies (don't even..) but it looks like a red-footed to me.

 

Fritz73

Wat mutt, dat mutt!

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #3

The ones from the video looks like brown boobies.

 

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Jim M.

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #4

sandrinhalee said:

Unfortunately the uploaded quality is not very good. I was wondering if it is a magnificent frigatebird, since I'd seen some of those around.

Click to expand...

Agree on cattle egret, not sure about the others. FYI: Frigatebirds never do what the bird in the video is doing, i.e. plunge dive.

Best,
Jim

 

Last edited: Jul 1, 2008

njlarsen

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #5

The behavior of the birds in the video reminds me more of a tern then brown booby: the boobies I see normally fly lower and dive into the water at an angle, not vertical from that high up. It is also seemingly very close to the coast, again where I would expect a tern to be (boobies a little further out, maybe half-way to the boat). I am not sure which ones could be possible down there. I could be wrong though.

I think the other two id's are correct.

Niels

 

Bird Hard 2

Cynical Sceptic

• Jul 1, 2008

• #6

I'd agree that they were Brown Booby. If you click on 'watch in high quality' below the 'View' tag, you can clearly see they have brown backs, head and necks, with white underparts. I would say they were far to big for terns too.

 

njlarsen

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• Jul 1, 2008

• #7

Clicking watch in high quality does not seem to work for me - I even received an error message that the movie was not there anymore ...
Niels

 

sandrinhalee

bird happy

• Jul 2, 2008

• #8

Thank you! That was really helpful.

The video is still there if you want to try again.