Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:32:45 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Katrina Knight Subject: Re: Booby hysteria In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 10:46 AM 8/1/02 Kathy Klimkiewicz wrote: >There was a Blue-footed Booby on the Dry Tortugas many years ago (in the >70s but I do not remember the year). Many folks saw it as it was on the >main Sooty Tern island and fairly easy to find with a scope. Are you sure you don't mean Red-footed Booby? If not, Masked Boobies used to be called Blue-faced Boobies, so there might be room for confusion there too. There aren't any official records for Blue-footed Booby in the Tortugas (or elsewhere in Florida). Red-footed Boobies on the other hand do get seen there irregularly and people would have gotten exited over seeing one, especially back in the 70s. -- Katrina Knight kknight@epix.net Reading, PA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================