"Stupid Bird" - Booby
The stupid bird Booby is a large seabird of about 65-86 cm in the booby family of booby order Booby, with a total of 10 species of worldwide. It is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the Northern Booby, which is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean, can reach temperate regions. The English name "booby" for booby may come from the Spanish slang for "bobo", meaning stupid. In fact, are not afraid of people, and early seafarers can easily kill them, and therefore think they are stupid, so they are called stupid birds. are mostly true pelagic birds, even in coastal waters are rarely recorded, because are not afraid of people, sometimes if there are seafarers who like birds on large ships, they often feed the weak that fall on the boat, then the will follow the boat for a long time to swim around the nearshore harbor. There are three species of in Both China and Thailand: 1. Red-footed Booby (Sula sula); 2. Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster); 3. Blue-faced Booby Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) – not yet seen. Three species of distributed in China can be seen in taiwan waters, the most widely distributed is the red-footed booby, which must be seen when taking a boat to The Paracels.
