Brown Booby / Sula leucogaster LC
- Synonyms White-bellied Booby, Brown Booby [White-bellied], Brown Booby (White-bellied), Brown Booby [incl. etesiaca], Brewster's Booby, Booby Gannet, Booby
- Old latin name for bird Sula sula, Pelecanus sula, Plotus ineptus, Pelecanus leucogaster, Sula leucogastra
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Where to see Brown Booby
- Breeding region Tropical
- Breeding subregion widespread tropical and subtropical ocean islands
- Non breeding region inshore
- American Samoa
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Brunei
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- China
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Liberia
- Macao
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Oman
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pitcairn
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Réunion
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Wallis and Futuna
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
Brown Booby subspecies (2)
| Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sula leucogaster leucogaster | Atlantic and Caribbean islands: Fernando de Noronha (ne of ne Brazil), coastal islands off se Brazil, Cape Verde Is. (s Macaronesia, w of w Africa), Boatswain Bird I. (just off Ascension, sc South Atlantic Ocean), Alcatraz I. (w of nw Guinea) and Gulf of Guinea is.; Caribbean islands off Yucatan Pen. and Honduras to Panama, San Andrés and Providencia (far e of Nicaragua), Bahamas and Cayman Is. to Lesser Antilles, and islands n of Venezuela and Tobago | - | No |
| Sula leucogaster plotus | Red Sea through Indian Ocean to w, c Pacific Ocean: Red Sea, islands off Somalia and Socotra (nw Indian Ocean); Cosmoledo (e Aldabra group, sw Seychelles), islands off nw Madagascar and Chagos Arch. (w, nc Indian Ocean); Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas is. (ec Indian Ocean), islands off nw to ne Australia, Tench (St. Matthias group, nc Bismarck Arch.), other remote islands in Melanesia including off New Caledonia; many islands of s Japan including Kyushu; Taiwan; offshore islands of n, sw, sc Philippines; Con Dao (se of Vietnam), Perak I. (w of Malay Pen.), islands in Flores and Banda seas (sc, se Indonesian Arch.), from Marianas and Palau (nw, sw Micronesia) through Northwestern and w main Hawaiian Is. and Gambier Is. (e Tuamotu Arch.; e Polynesia) | - | No |
Species Name in Other Languages
| Language | Translation |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Bruinmalgas |
| Arabic | أطيش بني |
| Basque | Zanga iluna, Zanga ilun, Mascarell bru |
| Belarusian | Белабрухая олуша |
| Bengali | িয়যা ফুচফ |
| Breton | Morskoul gell |
| Bulgarian | Белокорем рибояд |
| Catalan | mascarell bru |
| Chinese | 褐鲣鸟, 红脚鲣鸟, 褐鰹鳥, 白腹鰹鳥, 棕色鲣鸟 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 白腹鰹鳥, 褐鰹鳥, 棕色鰹鳥 |
| Chuvash | пăвăр олуша |
| Croatian | smeđa bluna |
| Czech | terej žlutonohý |
| Danish | Brun Sule |
| Dutch | Roodpootgent, Bruine Gent |
| Esperanto | Bruna sulo |
| Estonian | pruunsuula |
| Finnish | ruskosuula |
| French | Fou à ventre blanc, Fou brun [incl. etesiaca], Fou brun [leucogaster], Fou brun (forme à ventre blanc), Fou brun (à ventre blanc), Fou brun |
| Frisian | Brune gint |
| Galician | Mascarell bru, Atobá pardo, Mascato pardo |
| German | Brauntölpel, Weißbauchtölpel |
| Greek | Λευκόγαστρη Σούλα, Κασταvόσoυλα |
| Hebrew | סולה לבנת בטן, סולה לבנת-בטן, סולה ל-בנת־בטן, סולה לבנת־בטן |
| Hungarian | barna szula |
| Icelandic | Brúnsúla |
| Indonesian | Gangsa batu coklat, Angsa-batu coklat, Burung Angsa-batu Coklat, Angsabatu Coklat, Angsabatu Kakimerah, Burung Gangsa Batu Coklat |
| Irish | Búbaí donn |
| Italian | Sula fosca |
| Japanese | カツオドリ |
| Korean | 갈색얼가니새 |
| Latvian | brūnā sulla |
| Lithuanian | Tamsusis padūkėlis, baltapilvis padūkėlis, arba rudasis smigikas |
| Macedonian | Кафеава блуна |
| Malagasy | Ngovo |
| Malay | Burung Olak-olak, Burung Dendang Laut, Dendang Laut, Burung Dendang-Laut Coklat, Burung Angsa Laut |
| Maltese | Sula Skura |
| Manx | Boobee dhone |
| Mongolian | сүл шувуу |
| Northern Sami | Ruškessuvlá |
| Norwegian | brunsule, Rødfotsule |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Brunsule |
| Polish | gluptak bialobrzuchy, głuptak białobrzuchy |
| Portuguese | atobá, alcatraz-pardo, mumbebo, Alcatraz-pardo, piloto, mergulhão, Atobá-pardo / Alcatraz-pardo, piloto-pardo, Alcatraz, freira, mambembo, carará |
| Romanian | Gâscă de mare cu burtă albă |
| Russian | Олуша бурая, Красноногая олуша, Бурая олуша |
| Samoan | fua'o |
| Serbian | Mrka bluna, Smeđa bluna |
| Slovak | sula hnedá, sula červenonohá |
| Slovenian | rjavi strmoglavec |
| Spanish | Boba Parda, Boba Prieta, Piquero Patirrojo, Piqueero moreno, Piquero café, Alcatraz Pardo, Piquero de patas rojas, Bobo Café, Pájaro Bobo Prieto, Bubí Pardo, Piquero Moreno, Piquero pardo, Bobo Vientre-blanco, Bubí |
| Swedish | Brun sula, brunsula, Rödfotad sula |
| Thai | นกบุ๊บบี้สีน้ำตาล, นกแกนเนทน้ำตาล, นกบู๊บบี้สีน้ำตาล, นกบู๊บบี้ตีนแดง, นกบูบีสีน้ำตาล |
| Turkish | Maskeli sümsük, Kara Sümsük |
| Ukrainian | сула білочерева |
| Uzbek | қўнғир олуша |
| Vietnamese | Chim điên chân đỏ, Chim điên bụng trắng |
| Welsh | Bwbi brown |























