Sulidae
鲣鸟科
jiān-niǎo kē

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The boobies and gannets are known as 鲣鸟 jiān-niǎo 'bonito birds' in Chinese, based on their habit of flocking above shoals of skipjack tuna (often called bonito). The name was borrowed from Japanese via its written form, i.e., reading the characters of the Japanese name with Chinese readings.

Species names

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SCIENTIFIC & ENGLISH		CHINESE			EAST		SOUTH	NORTH
Sula
Latin	English	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Japanese	Korean	Vietnamese	Mongolian
Sula sula	Red-footed booby	红脚鲣鸟 (紅腳鰹鳥) hóng-jiǎo jiān-niǎo 'red-legged skipjacktuna-bird'	(红脚鲣鸟) 紅腳鰹鳥 hóng-jiǎo jiān-niǎo 'red-legged skipjacktuna-bird'		アカアシカツオドリ (赤足鰹鳥) aka-ashi katsuo-dori 'red-legged skipjacktuna-bird'		Chim điên chân đỏ 'red-footed crazy-bird' (12, 13, 34)
Sula leucogaster	Brown booby	褐鲣鸟 (褐鰹鳥) hè jiān-niǎo 'brown skipjacktuna-bird'	(白腹鲣鸟) 白腹鰹鳥 bái-fù jiān-niǎo 'white-bellied skipjacktuna-bird'	棕色鲣鸟 (棕色鰹鳥) zōng-sè jiān-niǎo 'reddishbrown skipjacktuna-bird' (FS)	カツオドリ (鰹鳥) katsuo-dori 'skipjacktuna-bird'	갈색얼가니새 gal-saeg-eolgani-sae 'brown-coloured fool bird'	Chim điên bụng trắng 'white-bellied crazy-bird' (12, 13, 34)	Inner M: Хүрэвтэр сүл шувуу ᠬᠦᠷᠡᠪᠲᠣᠷ ᠰᠦᠯᠡ ᠰᠢᠪᠠᠭᠣ khurevter sül shuvuu 'lightbrown sül bird' (31)

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