boobies

Watching Humboldt seabirds on the cold waters off the coast of South America, I noticed that of them dive for…

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

I realize the potential for inappropriateness here is high. That the birds known by ornithologists as “Sulids” and by the…

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

The Brown Booby is a bird that helps explain why birders don’t always want to share what they are doing…

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