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Atobá pardo🐦

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SpeciesSuliformesSulidae
Birds

🐦Brown Booby

Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, 1783)

Бу́рая о́луша (лат. Sula leucogaster) — морская птица из семейства олушевых.

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Measurements
13
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≈ 1/48th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.29 kg
Body length
0.8 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Brown Booby

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.29 kgrecord 1.8 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.34 kgWikidataQ320193
  • Male1.19 kgWikidataQ320193

Figures vary

  • 1.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.8 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.2 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.39 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
29 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
41 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Marine
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Brown Booby yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSuliformes
  5. ›familySulidae
  6. ›genusSula
  7. ›speciesSula leucogaster
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familySulidae
  4. genusSula
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familySulidae
  11. genusSula
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In other languages
Piquero pardo (es), mascarell bru (ca), terej žlutonohý (cs), Brun Sule (da), Weißbauchtölpel (de), ruskosuula (fi) … and 24 more languages
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Atobá pardoAve marinha da espécie Atobá marrom (sula Leucogaster) no Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo. (52506252660)Bahamas Cruise birds June 2018 (2756)
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