Frigatebirds & Gannets - Frégates et fous

These are sea birds family, collectively called sulids, are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey. Boobies are found in tropical and temperate oceans of the world and Gannets occur in colder temperate waters in the North Atlantic, southern Africa and Australia - New Zealand. 

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The booby species is thought to take its name from the Spanish word “bobo”, meaning “stupid,” which is how early European colonists may have characterized these clumsy and unwary birds when they saw them on land—their least graceful environment.