Feeding not Always Brings Safety to Brown Boobies

Abstract

Here we examined a carcass of a brown booby found during the monitoring of a beach conducted on northern Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil. After necropsy, it was concluded that the brown booby choked eating a banded croaker twice as long and five times as heavy as the usual fish consumed by brown boobies. KeywordsBeach monitoring; Brown booby; Mortality; Prey induced; Sula leucogaster Feeding not Always Brings Safety to Brown Boobies