Talk:Masked booby

proper noun?

Why is "Masked Booby" used throughout as a proper noun? -- Mikeblas 13:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Ornithological convention. Common names of actual species, such as White-throated Sparrows, are capitalised to distinguish them from sparrows with white throats (white throated sparrows). Other types of animal vary in whether they are capitalised, fish aren't, whales and mammals are, see Capitalization of common names of species for more info. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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English names for subspecies

I've removed the English names for the subspecies. These were added in 2006 in this edit. A google search for "Western Indian Ocean masked booby" (including the quotes) only finds 10 hits. The names appear to have been coined by the wikipedia editor. - Aa77zz (talk) 05:44, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Good call. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:48, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Bookmarks

• this to read and add later Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:48, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

• The birds of north america page suggests that siblicide has not bee directly observed in the masked booby but is assumed. This was published in 2009. However, several authors pretty muhc assume/confirm it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:39, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

• another and another Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:01, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

To do

• create map

I'll be doing this with File:World_pacific_centered.svg as a template to work off. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:42, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

• fidelity to colony and site

added Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:42, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

• age of first breeding
• do birds breed every year?

HANZAB does not say (unless I am missing something). There is a suggestion here that they don't, but it stops short of actually saying that Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:31, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

• longevity and mortality - maximum recorded age (ABBBS has 24y 9m)

the USGS database here records the maximum age as 25y 3m but provides very little detail.

Yeah, and a guidebook here says up to 30 years too. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:12, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

• rats - currently article has "no evidence they are able to kill chick or eggs" citing Priddel in Breeding colonies but "Rats prey on eggs and young" in Predators and parasites citing HANZAB (which actually has "Rats are menace where present.") - Aa77zz (talk) 12:35, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs) 08:13, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Nice to see a bird again. Will start soon!

• Caribbean birds occasionally wander north to warm southern Gulf Stream waters off the eastern seaboard of the United States. – lacks a source

added Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:06, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

• I would suggest to combine the second to fourth paragraphs in "Distribution and habitat" to a single paragraph to make it less cluttered. Combining appears to make sense as all are about vagrancy. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 08:13, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

I now have 3 paras - 1 for each ocean Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:06, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

• I suggest to link "serrations" and "cephalopods" for comprehensibility.

done Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:56, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• "making landing call as he lands" – Not sure if this is a typo; "making a landing call" or "making landing calls"?

a typo/the former. tweaked Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:56, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• "It make cock its tail" – do not understand the "make" here, but maybe its my poor English.

a typo. tweaked Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:56, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• The male presents nesting material in a gesture of symbolic nest-building – This is very interesting. As I take from the following, they appear to not use nesting material at all for their actual nest? If so, I would explicitly state that, makes it even more interesting.

I know, weird eh? I added this. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:10, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• After leaving the nest, young birds are dependent on their parents for 3–4 weeks – Here I miss the info at what age young birds do leave the nest!

Whoops, don't know how I missed that. added now Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:14, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• 50-60 pairs – this needs a proper dash: 50–60 pairs

done Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:56, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• which may impact or breeding success of both subspecies – I don't understand the "or" here grammatically.

a typo. tweaked Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:57, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

• That's everything, thanks for the nice article. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 06:03, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Subspecies

The article has:

• "There is a clinal change in size across its range, where birds in the Atlantic are the smallest, with the size increasing westwards though the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, where the largest individuals are found.[18]" ([18] is HBW alive)

HBW alive has

• "Races vary clinally in size, becoming larger eastwards from Atlantic, with largest forms occurring in E Pacific." and also "Races vary in overall size and colour of bare parts, nominate smallest with increasing cline to E;"

Have I missed something or is this an error in the article? Aa77zz (talk) 13:31, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

• NB: new paper on Bedout island population - here. Will get fulltext and add Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:16, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Why ‘Booby’?

This name is so strange, not to mention a little inappropriate. Is there any reason for this particular name? Furness804 (talk) 03:45, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

From Booby:

'The English name "booby" was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "stupid", as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten. Owing to this, boobies are often mentioned as having been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably William Bligh of the Bounty and his adherents during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his followers.' GGOTCC (talk) 03:52, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

That was surprisingly informative, thanks! - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:58, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

No problem! Happy New Year. GGOTCC (talk) 04:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Not that I really care Hhtesntwr (talk) 04:44, 1 January 2024 (UTC)