Masked booby

Description

The masked booby (Sula dactylatra) is a large seabird of the booby family,Sulidae.First described by French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831,the masked booby is one of six species of booby in the genus Sula.This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans,except in the eastern Atlantic;in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca booby,Sula granti,which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of masked booby.[2][3] It is also called the masked gannet or the blue-faced booby.