See the info below from eBird, including links to poor photos.
Looks to me like a Common Murre.
Certainly not a Brown Booby.
Jamie Simmons
Corvallis
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Brown Booby (1 Coos)
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Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) (2)
- Reported Jul 04, 2014 18:00 by San Diego Virtual Ornithologists
- OR-Coos Bay, North Spit, BLM Boat Launch, Coos, Oregon
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=43.4155127,-124.2789853&ll=43.4155127,-124.2789853
- Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18993364
- Comments: "Sorry for using eBird as an alert, but we're not local
and don't know who to call. Nor are we sure these two birds are in
fact Brown Boobies. But they don't look like anything else we can
identify.
Both birds were large pelagic-type birds with brownish-red uppers.
Both had white under-wing coverts, belly and vent. One bird had a
light-colored bill, the other a distinctly darker bill. As can be
seen in the photo of the 'rearing' bird, the wings are narrow and pointed.
Both were feeding in the area about 200 meters off the BLM boat ramp,
where they would dive frequently (though not apparently deeply). They
were in that area the entire half-hour we were there, and we never saw
them fly or haul out.
Sorry about the photo quality, but we're traveling with a
focus-challenged Nikon D5100.
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