Birders claim first sighting of brown booby in UK
by Patrick Barkham from Environment | The Guardian on (#4P95M)
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.
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