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  Boobies
Similarly, masked boobies tend to nest at the edges of the archipelago (Daphne, Espanola, Genovesa), while red-footed boobies tend to be found only at the fringes of the archipelago (Genovesa and Punta Pitt on the northeaster tip of San Cristobal).
They resemble the small kind of booby, and something similar to the kind which is described at the Lobas Islands, called Bonaparte's army, excepting they are of rather a darker colour on the breast and neck, and their beaks and feet are of a prussion blue.
Boobies and gannets, in general, have complex courtship rituals and in the Galapagos, the courtship of the blue-footed booby is most complex.
www.rit.edu /~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Boobies.html   (1106 words)

  
 NVA/VC Booby Traps - General Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The use of booby traps also had a long-lasting psychological impact on Marines and soldiers and helped to further alienate them from civilian populations that could not be distinguished from combatants.
Booby traps can be divided into explosive and non-explosive antipersonnel devices and anti-vehicle (i.e., tank, vehicle, helicopter, and riverine craft) devices.
However, a booby trap for helicopters consisted of wires connected to grenades atop posts at the edge of the LZ at a height to inflict blast and splinter damage on the debussing troops and splinter damage on the helicopters themselves, with the rotors being particularly vulnerable.
www.gruntonline.com /NVAandVC/boobytraps1.htm   (2225 words)

  
 Booby Traps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Drug farmers are known for placing booby traps of various types on the perimeters of and within their plantations.
Fortunately, booby traps of this sort are rare because they are only used by the most dangerous of criminal elements.
Booby traps of this sort may be laced with nails, glass and even chemical and biological agents.
www.geo-outdoors.info /booby_traps.htm   (1341 words)

  
 Booby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The boobies are part of the family Sulidae, a group of seabirds closely related to gannets.
Owing to this, boobies are often mentioned to have been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably Captain Bligh of HMAV Bounty and his loyalists during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his mutineers.
Five of the six extant booby species are in the genus Sula, with the sixth recently given its own genus Papasula, while the three gannets are usually treated in the genus Morus; some authorities consider that all nine species should be considered congeneric, in Sula.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Booby   (427 words)

  
 Seabirds - boobies
Red-footed boobies and frigatebirds may often be seen draped over their nest or a branch with their necks hanging down, wings drooped, and cloacal (anal) surfaces exposed to the air but in the shade of the body.
Boobies are frequently seen with their wings outstretched behind them as they face their backs to the sun.
Boobies frequently perch on ships at sea, sometimes using a vantage point near the bow from which to dive on flying fish skipping away from the bow wave.
www.islandnet.com /~mjackson/bookboobies.html   (4554 words)

  
 Booby trap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A booby trap is distinguished from a land mine by the fact that it is an improvised weapon, perhaps made from an artillery shell, or a grenade, or a quantity of high explosives, whereas a land mine is manufactured for its specific purpose.
A booby trap may be buried in the manner common with land mines, or not, though as a rule it is concealed in some fashion, and set to be detonated by means of pressure or a trip wire.
Booby traps can also be applied as defensive weapons against unwelcomed guests or against non-military trespassers, and some people set up traps in their homes to keep people from entering.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Booby_trap   (958 words)

  
 NatureWorks - Blue-footed Booby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Its feather are brown on the wings, and its head and neck are brown with fl streaks.
The blue-footed booby breeds from the Gulf of California south to Peru.
The blue-footed booby lives on the open sea except when it is breeding.
www.nhptv.org /natureworks/bluebooby.htm   (255 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Animals - Children's Zone - Blue-footed Booby
Blue-footed boobies are found in Central America, on the Galapagos Islands, the west coast of Mexico and northern South America.
Boobies leave their nesting grounds in the morning and head out to sea to look for shoals of fish such as anchovy and squid.
Boobies also point their bills in the air, extend their wings and make strange whistling sounds and males bring nesting material to the females.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/reallywild/amazing/booby.shtml   (330 words)

  
 NatureWorks - Masked Booby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The masked booby is the largest of the booby family.
The masked booby breeds in the Caribbean, across the Pacific Ocean, to Hawaii, Australia, and Indonesia.
While this may seem cruel, forcing the younger chick out increases the chances of survival of the older chick and in the long run the masked booby species because the parents are better able to care for one chick at a time.
www.nhptv.org /natureworks/maskedbooby.htm   (347 words)

  
 Blue- footed Booby
The booby's particular name may emanate from the Spanish "bobo," meaning buffoon or stupid fellow.
They call this blue-footed booby "stupid fellow" because its lack of fear and gawkiness on land that made it an easy quarry for man. The booby displays exceptional mildness, interesting stances, blue feet, and curious manners.
Three species of boobies are found in the Galapagos: the blue-footed, masked (white), and red-footed booby.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/birding/28694   (430 words)

  
 SDNHM Masked Booby
Boobies are tropical ocean birds, nesting on islands.
For people unfamiliar with boobies, though, the five species in the North Pacific Ocean can be difficult to identify, especially because the young birds take several years to attain the adult colors of the plumage, bill, and feet.
The booby at La Jolla is easily identified as the Masked by its dull greenish bill surrounded by a mask of bare flish skin and its fl and white plumage.
www.sdnhm.org /research/birds/maskedbooby.html   (373 words)

  
 Booby - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Booby, common name for any member of a genus of large web-footed seabirds.
Boobies inhabit tropical and subtropical islands throughout the world....
It's about a man who takes a woman to a booby hatch.
au.encarta.msn.com /Booby.html   (139 words)

  
 CD Baby: BOOBY TRAP: Hands On Experience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Booby Trap, originally, Disturbing the Peace, is a Phoenix based, Hard Hitting, Funkin, Groovin, Heavy, Alternative, Jazz, Punk band currently menacing the Arizona Club Scene.
Currently Booby is back in the studio, with sound engineer Roy Walker, working on their third cd, and will return to playing local shows in January of 2004.
Jesse joined the Booby Trap crew in Sept of 2002 when he was won in a bad bet in a poker game between Jesse's dad and Scott.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/boobytrap?cdbaby=2ae2fc5eb1f7c03ed2b35c8d7b9f4ec9   (539 words)

  
 The Booby Gannet
Next day, however, at the same hour, the Booby was seen perched on the same prong, where, after resting about three hours, it made off to the open sea, doubtless in search of food.
The nest of the Booby is placed on the top of a bush at a height of from four to ten feet.
When a Booby has alighted on the spar of a vessel, it is no easy matter to catch it, unless it is much fatigued; but if exhausted and asleep, an expert seaman may occasionally secure one.
www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F41_G5b.html   (1992 words)

  
 Jungle Photos Galapagos Birds seabirds - red-footed booby
The Galapagos population of red-footed boobies is considered to be an endemic subspecies (Sula sula websteri).
The red-footed booby is one of the few species of seabirds that perches in vegetation—most others dwell on the ground.
As the red-footed booby nests in trees it is the only member of its family to build a nest and this rather crude affair consists of a stack of twigs, usually well-hidden in vegetation.
www.junglephotos.com /galapagos/gbirds/seabirds/rfbooby.shtml   (686 words)

  
 The Blue-Footed Booby
The word booby is from a Spanish word, bobo, meaning "stupid fellow." Some think the booby appears to be silly because he is so tame and clumsy on land.
As baby boobies hatch, the eggs are held on top of mom's or dad's feet.
Booby, and put the instinct into their brains as to how to use them.
www.discoverymagazine.com /articles/d1994/d9404g.htm   (337 words)

  
 Wildlife of the Islands: Birds
Though the ancestors of these birds were nest-builders, the modern blue-footed booby has lost this convention in its isolated island habitat and now lays it eggs directly on the ground.
Found only on the Galapagos and Hawaiian Islands, the dark-rumped petrel is severely threatened by both humans, who compete for the same food, and introduced species that prey on these birds and their eggs.
Like the blue-footed booby, it also eats fish, but the two species do not compete for food, as the red-footed booby does its fishing far out at sea.
www.pbs.org /safarchive/5_cool/galapagos/g23a_biology.html   (973 words)

  
 Booby-MtyBay-Feb99
My paper showed that several adult Masked Boobies (sensu strictu) have occurred in California, quite possibly from both the Revillagigedos populations and those in the Central Pacific, but that juvenal birds in April (3 records in California and adjacent Baja California) were most likely Nazca Boobies.
This pattern is shown by juvenals of both Masked and Nazca boobies; older birds may be identified by the color at the base of the bill (yellow to yellow-green in Masked; orange to pinkish in Nazca).
Perhaps more important, the cervical collar on the Masked Booby is very broad, cleanly white, and well-demarcated, while that on the Nazca Booby is narrower, less clean, and the demarcation edges are fuzzy.
montereybay.com /creagrus/booby_mtybay.html   (1635 words)

  
 Adventure Gamers : Booby Trap - E3 2004
Our #3 game of E3 2004, Jane Jensen’s Booby Trap, is about as far at the other end of the spectrum as you could get, and she was very gracious to sit down with our team at E3 and discuss this game and many other topics.
Booby Trap is Jensen’s newest project after her highly anticipated Gray Matter (formerly known as Project Jane-J) was put on hold by DreamCatcher.
Booby Trap, a Flash-based game, will be distributed by Oberon Media through various portals exclusively online, and is scheduled for a September 2004 release.
www.adventuregamers.com /display.php?id=380   (1122 words)

  
 Booby Trap Main
Sax player Ricardo Aguilar was ready to turn the page and had issues in his personal life, similar to mine, so I think he was ready for the end.
We have no plans right now to return to the club scene and have taken the music back to the basics, which is, we now play strictly for ourselves.
Saxophone player, Ricardo Aguilar will not be continuing with us, so the sound has changed considerably, and we wish all the members the best of luck who have contributed to a 6 year run.
www.boobytrapmusic.com   (691 words)

  
 Booby Trap Main (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As most of you know on August 26th Booby Trap played our last show and decided to call it quits.
Guitarist Rich Brockway was supportive of my decision, but emphasized the fact he did not want Booby Trap to end, and suggested a break and then a re-grouping to see if we could continue.
So, as of this point 75% of Booby Trap is still continuing to play music, just not in the public eye.
www.boobytrapmusic.com.cob-web.org:8888   (691 words)

  
 Blue-footed Booby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) is a bird in the Sulidae family which comprises ten species of long-winged seabirds.
The natural breeding habitat of the Blue-footed Booby is tropical and subtropical islands off the Pacific coast of South America from Peru to Mexico including, most famously, the Galápagos Islands.
The courtship of the Blue-footed Booby consists of the male flaunting his blue feet and dancing to impress the female.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue-footed_Booby   (425 words)

  
 Birds - Blue Footed Booby
When the chicks do begin to hatch the booby will support the eggs on the tops of their feet.
If there is not enough food for all of the chicks, the parents will feed the largest chick in the brood to make sure that at least one of the chicks will survive.
The first booby to spot a fish gives a whistle to call the rest of the group, who follows the first as it dives into the water to catch its fish!
www.worldkids.net /critters/birds/booby.htm   (604 words)

  
 SongPlanet.com - Booby Trap
Booby Trap's musical style is all over the map.
Overall Booby Trap is a band that takes their music very seriously, while not taking themselves seriously at all.
Their music is wicked fun to listen to, and their live shows are a solid kick of adrenaline.
songplanet.com /boobytrap   (480 words)

  
 Nursing Necklace - Fun nursing necklaces! (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If my children did get ahold of it and were pulling on it, I'd much rather it just come apart at a clasp then break and have beads flying everywhere presenting a choking hazard.
No child should be left unsupervised with any type of jewelry because of the risk of possible strangulation or choking.
Booby Beads and Michelle Herzog are all not liable for any unforeseen accidents!
www.boobybeadz.com.cob-web.org:8888   (494 words)

  
 Wordorigins.org: Booby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The term booby meaning a stupid person dates to about 1599.
She was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands.
Although booby is a 20th century form, it traces back to the mid-17th century with the term bubby.
www.wordorigins.org /Words/LetterB/booby.html   (183 words)

  
 Species Profile for Abbott's booby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Federal Register documents that apply to the Abbott's booby.
USFWS Refuges on which the Abbott's booby is reported.
The Abbott's booby was first listed on June 14, 1976.
ecos.fws.gov /SpeciesProfile?spcode=B04P   (143 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Booby Trap / The Takers: DVD: Angela Carnon,Christopher Culhane,Christopher Geoffries,Shirley Grinnell,Art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"Booby Trap," which offers far more plot than the usual sexploitation drive-in/grindhouse fare lovingly preserved by Something Weird Video, narrowly escapes being a plodding bore, but it sure could have spared us several of those minutes.
The first movie BOOBY TRAP starts with a troubled ex-marine buying 40 Claymore mines and blowing the soldier who illegally sold him the explosives to smithereens, just for the fun of it.
It must be said that the BOOBY TRAP trailers are better than the movie itself.
www.amazon.com /Booby-Trap-Takers-Angela-Carnon/dp/B00007L4NR   (1879 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: Private SNAFU - Booby Traps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is one of 26 Private SNAFU ('Situation Normal, All Fouled Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops.
At the end of it all Snafu goes in and get's blown up by an exploding piano which is kind of funny in that it's so rediculous.
In this one, Snafu enters a zone recently vacated by the enemy and, despite warnings to keep his nose out of things, gets hoodwinked by various booby traps.
www.archive.org /details/booby_traps   (442 words)

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