Typical Boobies
Sula
A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the Sulidae family. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Blue-footed Booby
speciesSula nebouxii
Brown Booby
speciesSula leucogaster
Red-footed Booby
speciesSula sula
Cocos Booby
speciesSula brewsteri
Nazca Booby
speciesSula granti
Peruvian Booby
speciesSula variegata
Masked Booby
speciesSula dactylatra
Cocos × Blue-footed Booby
hybridSula brewsteri × nebouxii
Masked × Brown Booby
hybridSula dactylatra × leucogaster
Masked × Nazca Booby
hybridSula dactylatra × granti
Blue-footed × Peruvian Booby
hybridSula nebouxii × variegata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.213
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.357
Herbarius
1485 · p.114
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.172
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.187
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.195
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.204
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.205
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 3–4
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.144
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.114
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica
Willem Piso · 1658 · p.555
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.113
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Sula in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3785.