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Rescuers unsure if red-footed booby chick Dolly will fly

While the cast has been removed from the broken wing of rescued red-footed booby chick Dolly, it remains unclear if the protected bird will be able to fly soon.

Rescued red-footed booby chick makes recovery

A red-footed Bobby chick, affectionately named Dolly, is now on her way to recovery after a recent visit to Island Vets to treat a broken wing.

Plan approved to protect Cayman’s endangered nesting seabirds

The National Conservation Council has given its full support to a draft plan to protect six species of native nesting seabirds across the Cayman Islands.
A brown booby pair, the male on the left and the female on the right, perches on the south coast of Cayman Brac. Brown boobies was among six species of seabirds the National Conservation Council has included in a draft conservation plan. - Photo: Jane Haakonsson, DoE

Critical habitat plan for endangered seabirds

The National Conservation Council is asking for public input on a plan to designate critical habitats for dwindling nesting seabird populations across the Cayman Islands, to stave off "imminent" local extinction.

Rescued red-footed booby dies at Turtle Centre

Norman the red-footed booby, who was rescued on a British beach and flown by plane to Cayman, died at the Cayman Turtle Centre on Christmas Day, the Department of Environment confirmed Tuesday.

Long journey home for red-footed booby

A red-footed booby named Norman arrived in the Cayman Islands on a British Airways flight from Heathrow last week. The bird fell from the sky, exhausted and dehydrated, on a beach in St. Leonards, in the southeast of England, in September.

Wetland reserve a haven for wildlife

Little Cayman’s Booby Pond Nature Reserve on the island’s south side features a land-locked saltwater lagoon with mangrove margins and old growth dry forest.

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