#1137 · 🐦 birds
Brown Booby
🇳🇱 Bruine Gent ·Sula leucogaster
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Максим Стефанович · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Henrik Kibak · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Evan C · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © David Cohen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Emerald Lake State Park, Dorset, VT, USA:© Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Lake Erie, Haldimand County, ON, CA:© ainsleykraut · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Charlotte Kirchner · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © obsalumni · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The brown booby ( Sula leucogaster ) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. They present sexual dimorphism. 9 lb). 2 lb).
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 10,089 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs up to about 1.3 kg.
- Scientifically named by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 (243 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brown Booby
- Nederlands
- Bruine Gent
- scientific name
- Sula leucogaster
- class
- Aves
- order
- Suliformes
- family
- Sulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 86
- sightings worldwide
- 10,089
- GBIF records in NL
- 32
- weight
- 1.3 kg
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1783 by Pieter Boddaert
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Sulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 3797, Wikidata Q320193, GBIF 2480975, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.