Posted on 10/26/2016 4:10:26 PM PDT by BBell
Birds are familiar and welcomed sights along the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Brown pelicans set their large wings and glide amazingly close to motorists on the bridge. And large, frenzied swarms of purple martins appear at each end of the bridge at sundown during certain times of the year.
Now some rare birds have also decided to make the Causeway their home, although largely out of sight. Several groups of brown boobies, large brown-and-white, fish-eating sea birds commonly seen farther south in tropical waters, have taken up residence alongside and beneath the Causeway. Bridge General Manager Carlton Dufrechou said about nine pair are making themselves at home on the Causeway's piling caps, about eight miles from the north shore.
"They like to nest in cliffs. I guess this is the closest to a cliff they can find around here," Dufrechou said.
Causeway inspectors checking out the underside condition of the bridges spotted the sea birds, he said. They thought they saw the boobies earlier this year and confirmed the sighting recently.
Carolyn Atherton, curator of birds at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, took a look at the Causeway's photos and confirmed the birds are brown boobies. She said they are rare sights in this area.
"I think this group has been here most of this year, and the number has even grown a bit," she said. "I don't really know why they are staying here."
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Beautiful birds. BUT #BLM is going to be pissed about this story. Brown boobies..............
Don’t comment, Jeff.
Brown boobies!!! That’s racist!!! And sexist!!!
That’s what I thought they meant. Miss Pam Grier right at home beneath the Causeway. She’s very fit, but I don’t think that top was meant for calisthetics.
Jackie Brown, hot and kicking butt!
Grier is a beautiful woman. It’s a shame she got killed off in ‘Ghosts of Mars’ (It least Natasha Henstrich survived).
Is that Chopper Harley?
Stacey Dash is yummy...
Chopper Harley actually lives in south nj. It is a he.
heh heh . . . he said brown boobies . . . heh heh heh heh!
heh heh . . . he said brown boobies . . . heh heh heh heh!
Boobies of color
Well there’s a phrase I never expected to see in a FR subject line!
A blue-footed pair of boobies, just for diversity.
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Look man, she was in her panties in a couple of scenes. I was praying she wouldn’t die s/
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