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Rare birds: Brown boobies right at home beneath Causeway
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 10/24/16 | Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: brownboobies; causeway; louisiana; rarebirds
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Rare brown boobies in Louisiana, who da thunk.


1 posted on 10/26/2016 4:10:26 PM PDT by BBell
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Beautiful birds. BUT #BLM is going to be pissed about this story. Brown boobies..............


2 posted on 10/26/2016 4:11:58 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Missing you /johnny (JRandomFreeper). Time to Pray, Prepare, and Participate.)
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To: BBell

3 posted on 10/26/2016 4:14:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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Don’t comment, Jeff.


4 posted on 10/26/2016 4:14:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: BBell

Brown boobies!!! That’s racist!!! And sexist!!!


5 posted on 10/26/2016 4:14:29 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: EEGator

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.


6 posted on 10/26/2016 4:20:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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7 posted on 10/26/2016 4:28:58 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: EEGator

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).


8 posted on 10/26/2016 4:29:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bratch

Is that Chopper Harley?


9 posted on 10/26/2016 4:33:54 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: Bratch

Stacey Dash is yummy...


10 posted on 10/26/2016 4:35:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Mashood

Chopper Harley actually lives in south nj. It is a he.


11 posted on 10/26/2016 4:39:44 PM PDT by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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12 posted on 10/26/2016 4:40:49 PM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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heh heh . . . he said brown boobies . . . heh heh heh heh!


13 posted on 10/26/2016 4:50:36 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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heh heh . . . he said brown boobies . . . heh heh heh heh!

14 posted on 10/26/2016 5:00:13 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

Boobies of color


15 posted on 10/26/2016 5:17:22 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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Well there’s a phrase I never expected to see in a FR subject line!


16 posted on 10/26/2016 5:33:06 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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A blue-footed pair of boobies, just for diversity.

17 posted on 10/26/2016 5:41:16 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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Amateur you want to see some real giant brown boobies?.. 0
18 posted on 10/26/2016 5:59:59 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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PING

(LMAO!)


19 posted on 10/26/2016 6:02:56 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Look man, she was in her panties in a couple of scenes. I was praying she wouldn’t die s/


20 posted on 10/26/2016 6:03:50 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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