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"booby" is a Spanish term for "bobo" which means stupid clown or clumsy. These birds are very clumsy on land and they have the name blue footed because they have blue webbed feet.

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Don't all blue footed boobies have blue feet?

all blue footed boobies have blue feet...always!


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