Boobies spotted on the causeway.

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Now some rare birds have also decided to make the Causeway their home, although largely out of sight. Several groups of brown boobies, large brown-and-white, fish-eating sea birds commonly seen farther south in tropical waters, have taken up residence alongside and beneath the Causeway. Bridge General Manager Carlton Dufrechou said about nine pair are making themselves at home on the Causeway's piling caps, about eight miles from the north shore.

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Causeway inspectors checking out the underside condition of the bridges spotted the sea birds, he said. They thought they saw the boobies earlier this year and confirmed the sighting recently. Carolyn Atherton, curator of birds at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, took a look at the Causeway's photos and confirmed the birds are brown boobies. She said they are rare sights in this area.

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