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Boobies, gannets
Order:
Pelecaniformes
Family: Sulidae
9 species
Tropical and temperate oceans
Bill, bare facial skin, unfeathered gular region, and feet often brightly colored; bill stout, conical, with sharp cutting edge; nostrils absent; adults white with black or brown, immatures brown
Feed on fish by plunging from the air, sometimes diving underwater; hunt from the wing like frigatebirds and tropicbirds
Colonial; incubate with vascularized feet; 1-4 egg clutches
