Birders claim first sighting of brown booby in UK

Hundreds flock to St Ives in Cornwall to catch a glimpse of the yellow-footed seabird

Hundreds of birders have flocked to Cornwall to seek what could be the first ever UK sighting of a brown booby.

The large, yellow-footed seabird is usually found fishing in tropical waters on the far side of the Atlantic, around the Caribbean and Venezuela.