Boobies! Petrels, Shearwaters, Ducks, Finches, Curlews! (and a Noddy)

Here are the last of the bird pictures from Laysan! There are a few more that I don' t have pictures of...like plovers, turnstones and other shorebirds. Enjoy!

Masked Booby:


Adult, can you find the chick?


Adult on nest - boobies usually lay 2 eggs, but this one had 4!


Masked Booby chick:


Red-footed booby - they nest in the Tournefortia:


Brown Booby:


Sooty Tern with little chick:


Winner of the cutest chick ever award: Bulwer's Petrel - they look like little afro puffs!


Laysan Duck (endangered):


Christmas Shearwaters:



Wedge-tail Shearwaters: they sound like ghosts when they call, kinda eerie!


Laysan Finch (endangered):


Bristle-thighed Curlew: