page_title: List of birds of Montserrat
section_title: Boobies and gannets
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Montserrat / Boobies and gannets
caption_attribution_description: Brown Booby Sula Sula leucogaster Lady Elliot Island, SE Queensland, Australia
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in Montserrat. The avifauna of Montserrat included a total of 125 species according to Bird Checklists of the World as of October 2019. Of them, 66 are rare or accidental. There is one endemic species, the endangered Montserrat oriole, as well as an endemic subspecies of the forest thrush. Three species have been introduced by humans. Three Important Bird Areas have been identified on Montserrat by BirdLife International, the Northern Forested Ghauts, Centre Hills and South Soufriere Hills.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are those of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2019 edition.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories of occurrence.
  Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Montserrat
  Endemic - a species endemic to Montserrat
  (I) Introduced - a species introduced directly to Montserrat or elsewhere in the New World
context_section_description: Order: Suliformes   Family: Sulidae
  The sulids comprise the gannets and boobies. Both groups are medium to large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish.
  Masked booby, Sula dactylatra
  Brown booby, Sula leucogaster
  Red-footed booby, Sula sula (A)
caption: Brown booby
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