Brown Booby
Horsburgh Lighthouse

18 Apr 1905 (imprecise)

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General details

Species	Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Record ID	390
Date	18 Apr 1905 (imprecise)
Location	Horsburgh Lighthouse
Count	1 individual
Date added	25 Oct 2021

This is one of 4 accepted records of Brown Booby in our database.

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Record accepted.

Committee's view

Background
A specimen in the LKCNHM. Wang & Hails (2007) states the date as 18 April 1905. Lim (2009) lists the date just as "1935". The correct date is unclear. Sin Yong Chee Keita checked the specimen on 13 September 2021 and there was no date on the label. (Specimen catalogue number ZRC 3.106).

Verdict	Accepted / Wild (Specimen)

References (see all)

Wang & Hails (2007)	Record is present in source
Lim (2009)	Record is present in source

Revisions to this record

Date revised	Changes made
22 Mar 2022	Date flagged as imprecise.

RECOMMENDED CITATION

Bird Society of Singapore. (2021). Record 390: Brown Booby Sula leucogaster. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://records.singaporebirds.com/record/390/.