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Content[edit]

The content of this page is almost identical to Gannet - since the two are so closely related, I'd think one page for both would make better sense, with 'booby' being a redirect to 'gannet'. Anyone any comments? - MPF 21:27, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

no problem for me, they're often considered congeneric anyway

jimfbleak 06:05, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC) (Feb 2004) there was some suggestion of merging this article with 'Gannet'. They do overlap to a large extent. Are there any further suggestions regarding such a merge? Maias 01:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, what about merging both 'Booby' and 'Gannet' into 'Sulidae'? Maias 03:03, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone has comments for or against, please discuss at Talk:Sulidae. Maias 03:46, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Salt[edit]

What is the origin of the statement "Salt on the booby's tail" Drutt (talk) 22:41, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction pointed out by unregistered editor[edit]

The article states: "Five of the six extant Sulidae species called boobies are in the genus Sula". However, an unregistered editor has correctly pointed out that there is an infobox that lists six species called "Booby", all of which appear to be in this genus. Could somebody with more knowledge of ornithology clear this up? Kansan (talk) 23:02, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is still inconsistent. It now says there are seven species called boobies, six in Sula and one in Parasula, plus three species of gannet. That makes ten species in the three genus of the family Sulidae. It then says, in the next paragraph, "all nine species... ". That should probably be ten.Eregli bob (talk) 14:11, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i like boobies 103.100.129.242 (talk) 17:00, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish slang term bubie[edit]

Three Spaniards from North and central Spain are currently looking nonplused at this screen trying to figure out what that word "bubie" means. The only similar thing we can think of which means "dunce" is bobo. We actually have un "pájaro bobo" ("stupid bird")- bubie does not exist.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pal agerts (talk • contribs) July 4, 2012‎, 10:01 (UTC)

That's interesting - I was going to reply that maybe the reason you don't recognise the word is that the loan from Spanish dates from the 16th century, but now I'm wondering if this isn't some old vandalism of the page, and it's actually supposed to say bobo rather than bubie. I can find two sources for bobo([1] and [2]) but none for bubie. Thank you very much for making this correction! I'll fix it and add the sources, since the article is protected. --bonadea contributions talk 20:05, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the article for 'booby trap', it appears the derivation is from the Spanish term, but I think there should be some clarification in this article that the booby trap was not created for catching the birds. Apparently the birds are so dull-witted that traps are not even required. Shanen (talk) 08:40, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar fix in Name section[edit]

The first line under the 'Name' headline currently reads: "Their name was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "stupid..."" Unless their name is now assumed to be based on something else, this should read: "Their name IS possibly based..." And there is no mention of any other assumption to be made.