Tag: boobies

Birds

Well Adapted for a Plunge-diving Lifestyle

January 29, 2014 by Alfredo Begazo 2 Comments

Watching Humboldt seabirds on the cold waters off the coast of South America, I noticed that of them dive for their fish/food. Small birds...

Birding, I and the Bird

I and the Bird: What is a Booby?

November 7, 2013 by Nate 2 Comments

Let’s address, up front, the funny name. We get it. If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d...

I and the Bird

Call for I and the Bird: Show me your Sulids!

October 21, 2013 by Nate No Comments

I realize the potential for inappropriateness here is high. That the birds known by ornithologists as “Sulids” and by the general public, often accompanied...

Trips

Isla Isabel – Mexico’s Galapagos

April 23, 2013 by James 4 Comments

Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. Isla Isabel, a picturesque volcanic island...

Trips

Brown Booby in Cape May

October 26, 2011 by Corey 15 Comments

The Brown Booby is a bird that helps explain why birders don’t always want to share what they are doing with non-birders. Explaining to...

Birds

Behold the Blue-footed Booby

June 15, 2011 by Mike 2 Comments

The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. But...

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