Talk:Blue-footed Booby
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I'm new on Wikipedia, but I'm doing a research project on blue-footed boobies for school. Several other websites I've accessed have its scientific name listed as Sula nebouxi, one i. Urbanlioness 02:21, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
If you need pictures of boobies (the birds, that is), there's a well-known troll, woot, on the liberal political blog Eschaton who posts messages claiming free pictures of boobies (the human female kind) but are actually of the avian kind. If you can get in contact with woot might be able to provide a picture of the blue-footed booby for you. --Robert Merkel 04:09, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
- Any problem removing some of the pictures? Or else reorganizing them so it does not mess up the formatting of the text? Pnkrockr 14:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
- The text isn't yet long enough for a complete article. In that light, all the pictures are valuable in my opinion. But they could be reorganised. Chris Box 21:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Looks much better. Excellent job! Pnkrockr 22:29, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
- The text isn't yet long enough for a complete article. In that light, all the pictures are valuable in my opinion. But they could be reorganised. Chris Box 21:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry i butted into this, but I had the diving sequences and thought they would fit in well. --eukaryotica 17:26, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Passeriformes? RK Pelicaniformes!
Why are Blue footed Booby feet blue, anyway? I know it has something to do with the blood vessels in the feet, but I can't seem to figure out how. Mixmastermind 03:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think not, gannets and boobies have pigments in the feet, and in some cases at least (eg Northern Gannet) the colours differ between male and female. Any bird with blood the colour of a blue-foot's feet would be in serious trouble. jimfbleak 07:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- To be fair, blood vessels can be blue in appearance as well. Plus, it's because of how blood flows through their feet that Boobies can warm their young.Mixmastermind 07:43, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] The first paragraph...
The first paragraph isn't exactly up to par for Wikipedia's content standards...
[edit] Name
One thing that should be noted is that in Spanish and in Ecuador specifically were the bird is native from, i'ts name is "Piquero de patas azules" and has nothing to do with the word "booby" or "bobo" I, living in Ecuador, have never heard of it being named as a "bobo", "piquero" literally meaning "pikeman" ( I guess it has something to do with them using small sticks in their beaks when they mate but I can't source that right now)
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New content has been added by Nicole Salzieder and Michelle Van Ert, as part of the Introductory Animal Biology coursework (Fall 2007) at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. The changes were also reviewed by two other students. Bala Thiagarajan (talk) 20:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC) Bala Thiagarajan (Instructor)
[edit] breeding
"To observers, this looks very weird, but this is how the blue-footed boobies mate. The blue-footed booby is a comical bird to watch. Males do a dance to attract the females. The dance includes the males lifting their blue feet high and throwing their heads up."
This sounds like it was written by an eight-year-old. To make matters worse, it repeats information that is already in the article. Would someone please remove this. 154.20.0.54 19:12, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
