One of Nature's ghastly jokes is illustrated in this bird's domestic life. Two eggs are laid but only one youngster is reared. The power that brings life seems equally interested in ending it, for the first born eliminates the other! To survive, the BOOBY child must crack its shell first.
Birds have been seen entering the water at an acute angle and emerge a few yards further on, still flying.
When food is plentiful, especially flying fish, they gorge until their stomachs will hold no more, retire to an island roost, appoint some sentinels and sleep off the orgy.
Tropical Atlantic Ocean, rarely north to Florida and Gulf of Mexico. Pacific Ocean birds are said to be a subspecies.