Red-footed Boobies (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

Red-footed Boobies

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Seabirds like these red-footed boobies do not nest in coconut palms, so the reduction of broadleaf forests would deprive the atoll of the nutrients from their droppings.

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Kydd Pollock, The Nature Conservancy

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