For marine park officials, the Masked Boobies represent “what we once lost – and what we hope to recover”. “We have been on a roller coaster ride of joy and despair as we watched our Masked Boobies build a family in Bird Islet,” the Tubbataha Management Office (TMO) said in a statement Monday afternoon.
TRNF, in a bulletin issued Thursday, said that park rangers have spotted two masked boobies, instead of the usual solo individual, while conducting quarterly seabird monitoring on Bird Islet.
