Red-footed booby north of NZ

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Alan Tennyson
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Red-footed booby north of NZ

Postby Alan Tennyson » Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:09 pm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/300 ... oast-of-nz
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Re: Red-footed booby north of NZ

Postby Cardinal15 » Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:46 pm

Very interesting that the article mentions that the nearest breeding colony is in the Kermadecs. Is this actually true?
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Re: Red-footed booby north of NZ

Postby SomesBirder » Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:26 pm

Cardinal15 wrote:Very interesting that the article mentions that the nearest breeding colony is in the Kermadecs. Is this actually true?

I'm afraid not; somebody would have misread this sentence from the NZBO page:
The nearest breeding colony to the Kermadec Islands is on ‘Ata (the southernmost Tongan island, 780 km to north-east), where 10,000 birds were estimated to be present in 1990.
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