The brown booby (Sula leucogaster) is a large seabird of the booby family Sulidae, of which it is perhaps the most common and widespread species. It has...
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zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The type species is the brown booby. The name is derived from súla, the Old Norse and Icelandic word for...
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The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species...
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The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. Adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They...
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booby in the family Sulidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of Brown booby, but it was split by the American Ornithological Society in 2024 due...
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The masked booby (Sula dactylatra), also called the masked gannet or the blue-faced booby, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae...
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Peruvian booby is within the genus Sula. It shares this genus with other boobies, including the blue-footed booby, the red-footed booby, the brown booby, the...
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The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulids, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish...
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The Nazca booby (Sula granti) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae, native to the eastern Pacific. First described by Walter Rothschild in...
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Blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii Peruvian booby, Sula variegata Masked booby, Sula dactylatra Nazca booby, Sula granti Red-footed booby, Sula sula Brown booby, Sula...
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seabirds comprising the genus Morus in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies, commonly named 'gugas' in Scotland. Gannets are large white birds with...
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the booby colonies had grown to 25,000 brown boobies and 112,000 masked boobies, making Clipperton home to the world's second-largest brown booby colony...
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pale gray-buff or light brown head, neck, and upper chest. The lower chest or breast is a chestnut color, and the back is browner than the male's. The hatchling...
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numerous is the red-footed booby, which nests in colonies, using trees on many parts of the shore terrace. The widespread brown booby nests on the ground near...
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Booby Cay is an island in the Bahamas that lies east of Mayaguana. The island is named after the brown booby population that resides on the island, along...
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Genus Sula Blue-footed booby Peruvian booby Masked booby Nazca booby Red-footed booby Brown booby Papasula Abbott's booby Morus Northern gannet Cape gannet...
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Abbott's booby (Papasula abbotti) is an endangered seabird of the sulid family, which includes gannets and boobies. It is a large booby and is placed within...
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red-tailed tropicbird, masked booby, red-footed booby, brown booby, great frigatebird, spectacled tern, sooty tern, blue-gray noddy, brown noddy, black noddy and...
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short, stubby wings. The upperparts are blackish, and the underparts are brown. The long beak is hooked at the tip and the eye is turquoise. Like all members...
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English: They saw a bird that is called a frigatebird, which makes the boobies throw up what they eat in order to eat it herself, and she does not sustain...
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Genus Sula Blue-footed booby Peruvian booby Masked booby Nazca booby Red-footed booby Brown booby Papasula Abbott's booby Morus Northern gannet Cape gannet...
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ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 24994028. "Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World - Boobies, Cormorants, Frigatebirds and Tropicbirds". www.oceanwanderers.com. Retrieved...
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group to Suloidea which consists of cormorants, darters, gannets, and boobies. Three of the five extant species of frigatebirds are widespread (the magnificent...
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Booby Island is an uninhabited islet in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is found in The Narrows, the channel between the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, about...
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David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, darters, cormorants". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International...
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minutus), white tern (Gygis alba), masked booby (Sula dactylatra), brown booby (S. leucogaster) and brown noddy (Anous stolidus). The Polynesian rat...
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David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, darters, cormorants". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International...
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mainly glossy black with white streaking; females and immature birds are browner. The African darter differs in appearance from the American darter most...
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Refuge In flight Juvenile Double-crested cormorant in a confrontation with a brown pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) Ballard (Hiram M. Chittenden) Locks, (Seattle...
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Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags) and the Sulidae (gannets and boobies). Cormorants and darters are extremely similar as regards their body and...
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