13-09-2016 17:12 via theguardian.com

Did this red-footed booby really fly all the way from the Galapagos to the UK?

An exotic visitor that pitched up on the south coast of England may have come partway by ship, wherever it really came from. Sadly rescuers are struggling to save itIt’s not every day that a red-footed booby lands on the shores of Britain. Yet on Sunday 4 September, a bedraggled specimen came to rest on the beach at St Leonards-On-Sea near Hastings on the south coast of the UK. According to a story on the Daily Mail website, the wayward bird was “6,000 miles from home”.The blow
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