Masked Booby Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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A magnificent seabird of tropical oceans, the Masked Booby looks like a Northern Gannet in disguise. These lanky seabirds are snowy white like gannets, but with a blackish “mask” of skin at the base of the bill, as well as more extensive black in the flight feathers. The name “booby” derives from the Spanish bobo (for "fool”), possibly because of their ungainly courtship dances. Like other boobies, they nest in large colonies and forage at sea, making spectacular plunges into the ocean to capture fish and squid.
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Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra). Booby, Booby bird, Bird illustration
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Masked Booby Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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