November 2008
Susan and Johan de Roos

 

Bon Dia,

We stay at Costa Linda and have been coming to Aruba since 1984. We saw this bird for the first time today. Can you please identify this bird/duck for us? Thank you.

Susan and Johan de Roos

Jeff and Allison: The bird is an adult Brown Booby, a tropical seabird that can be seen regularly passing by offshore on Aruba. We have also enjoyed watching them roosting on the old German shipwreck.

 

Brown Booby (adult), photographed by Susan and Johan de Roos.