Blue-footed boobies, the large seabirds with bright seafoam-blue webbed feet, have suddenly expanded their range in California, and bird watchers reported seeing boobies this week in Santa Cruz, ...

With their blue feet and goofy looks, it’s easy to see why “booby” — from the Spanish word bobo, meaning fool or clown — became part of their name. And for the first time since the early 1970s, the ...

When you open a case of Warby Parker glasses, there's a pop of bright blue. It's an allusion to a rare bird called the blue-footed boobie, explains co-CEO and cofounder Neil Blumenthal in his new ...

Rare sightings of dancing, blue-footed birds are being recorded along the Point Reyes Peninsula and other areas of the county’s coast. The arrival of the blue-footed booby along Marin’s coast is part ...

Weeks after a young blue-footed booby was found injured and starved in Oceanside, the bird was able to return to its home in the wild Tuesday. On Nov. 21, crews spotted the bird at the Oceanside Pier ...

A good disguise could mean the difference between narrowly escaping a predator or winding up as a meal. But for birds that nest on different sorts of microhabitats, achieving successful camouflage ...

The blue-footed booby (yes, it's a bird that has blue feet and that oh-so-fun name), has been showing up all over SoCal in recent weeks. The LA Times reports that the colorfully-footed birds have been ...

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If you lay something on the ground, it’s bound to get dirty. And that’s a good thing — at least for blue-footed boobies, which lay their eggs in shallow nests dug into the dirt. The dirtier the egg, ...

A brand brought into focus with help from an eye-popping color Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Warby Parker This post first appeared in Business Insider. When you open a case of Warby Parker ...