Booby – Wikipedia

Systematics and evolution. The genus Sula was introduced by the French 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 the other member of the family Sulidae, the gannet.. The English name “booby” was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning “stupid”, as these tame birds had a …

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