Posted: Apr 12, 2018 8:15 PM
GDTUpdated: Apr 12, 2018 8:28 PM GDT
By FOX 12 Staff
NEWPORT, OR (KPTV) -
A rare brown booby bird was found
stranded on the Oregon coast.
The young bird was discovered
around noon Sunday, hours after a storm battered the Pacific Northwest.
The Oregon Coast Aquarium was
notified of a large, unique-looking bird on the beach adjacent to South Beach
State Park.
Aquarium staff typically requests
injured birds be brought to their facility in Newport, however in cases such as
this, with the bird being large and potentially dangerous, aquarium workers
responded to the scene.
Aviculturists identified the bird
as a juvenile brown booby.
Brown booby birds are typically
found in tropical or subtropical zones off the coast of Central America. In the
past few decades, however, the range of the birds has expanded northward. Last
fall, biologists discovered the first instance of the seabirds nesting as far
north as California in Channel Islands National Park.
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