Editing Booby (section)

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{About|the seabird}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Miocene (Langhian) – recent<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sula Brisson 1760 (booby) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36639&is_real_user=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808171040/https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36639&is_real_user=1 |archive-date=2021-08-08 |access-date=2019-07-08 |website=PBDB}}</ref>
| image = Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) -one leg raised.jpg
| image_caption = [[Blue-footed booby]] displaying by raising a foot
| taxon = Sula
| authority = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]], 1760
| type_species = ''Pelecanus leucogaster''
| type_species_authority = [[Pieter Boddaert|Boddaert]], 1783
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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A '''booby''' is a [[seabird]] in the [[genus]] '''''Sula''''', part of the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Sulidae]]. Boobies are closely related to the [[gannet]]s (''Morus''), which were formerly included in ''Sula''.