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Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks September · Boobies and Gannets · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
Andreas Trepte, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Brown Booby: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Brown Booby has been recorded in 17 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in September.

Conservation status: Not Evaluated (IUCN Red List, NE)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SW32Cornwall, England12024unverified
NO60Fife, Scotland12024unverified
HY75Sea, off Orkney Islands12024unverified
NZ52Redcar and Cleveland, England1812023unverified
TA17East Riding of Yorkshire, England282023unverified
SV80Sea, off Isles of Scilly72023unverified
NT28Fife, Scotland42023unverified
TA18North Yorkshire, England22023unverified
TA27East Riding of Yorkshire, England12023unverified
TA09North Yorkshire, England12023unverified
NT27City of Edinburgh, Scotland12023unverified
SV90Isles of Scilly, England12023unverified
NU14Northumberland, England12023unverified
SW71Cornwall, England92019 to 2020unverified
SW61Cornwall, England432019unverified
SW54Cornwall, England112019unverified
SW53Cornwall, England12019unverified

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