ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE STORK-LIKE BIRDS
THE GANNETS (Family Sulida)
Gannet, Booby, and Solan-goose are the names variously applied to the members of this small family. The first, and perhaps most widely employed, is Gannet, a word derived apparently from the Old English gan, after the manner of gander and goose.
The simple or foolish appearance of the birds, especially when on land, furnishes an explanation of the name Booby, while the last mentioned, or Solan-goose, is seemingly from the Scandinavian, signifying”Sea-goose."
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