Boobies
Whatever the PC spelling is, there were three species of Booby birds seen on the trip, some right from the word go.
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
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| juvenile Brown Booby on East Island |
Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
Red-footed Booby Sula sula
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Ashmore Reef 06 -- Boobies
This next series of posts will each refer to a different family of birds. This post is about the Boobys. I have great trouble with the correct plural of Booby. Is it Boobys or Boobies? Of course, in pluralising a noun, you drop the 'y' and add 'ies'. Hence 'family' becomes 'families'. But 'Booby' is a proper name. Morcombe uses 'boobies' as does Slater.
Whatever the PC spelling is, there were three species of Booby birds seen on the trip, some right from the word go.
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
Red-footed Booby Sula sula
Whatever the PC spelling is, there were three species of Booby birds seen on the trip, some right from the word go.
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
Red-footed Booby Sula sula
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