Brown Booby

Atlantic and Caribbean islands: Fernando de Noronha (ne of ne Brazil), coastal islands off se Brazil, Cape Verde Is. (s Macaronesia, w of w Africa), Boatswain Bird I. (just off Ascension, sc South Atlantic Ocean), Alcatraz I. (w of nw Guinea) and Gulf of Guinea is.; Caribbean islands off Yucatan Pen. and Honduras to Panama, San Andrés and Providencia (far e of Nicaragua), Bahamas and Cayman Is. to Lesser Antilles, and islands n of Venezuela and Tobago

Red Sea through Indian Ocean to w, c Pacific Ocean: Red Sea, islands off Somalia and Socotra (nw Indian Ocean); Cosmoledo (e Aldabra group, sw Seychelles), islands off nw Madagascar and Chagos Arch. (w, nc Indian Ocean); Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas is. (ec Indian Ocean), islands off nw to ne Australia, Tench (St. Matthias group, nc Bismarck Arch.), other remote islands in Melanesia including off New Caledonia; many islands of s Japan including Kyushu; Taiwan; offshore islands of n, sw, sc Philippines; Con Dao (se of Vietnam), Perak I. (w of Malay Pen.), islands in Flores and Banda seas (sc, se Indonesian Arch.), from Marianas and Palau (nw, sw Micronesia) through Northwestern and w main Hawaiian Is. and Gambier Is. (e Tuamotu Arch.; e Polynesia)