Blue foot

Blue-footed boobies

etymology

Blue foot is a name given to the occupation in the Middle High German blāvuoʒ 'blue foot', a type of falcon that is trained for hunting. It is therefore a professional name for a falconer or a hunter .

Blue foot or blue foot stands for

botany

• Blue-footed velvet cap , a poisonous hat fungus belonging to the genus of the velvet cap or conocybe
• Blaufuß-bald head , a toxic hat mushroom, the genus Psilocybe associated

zoology

• Blue-footed booby , a booby
• Blue-footed hawk
• Peru blue-footed giant tarantula , a spider of the tarantula family (Theraphosidae)

places

• Krahule (German blue foot), a place in Slovakia
• Am Blaufuss, a street in Wesel

Names

• Alfred Blaufuß (1912–1995), German botanist and teacher
• Johann Valentin Blaufuß (1769–1850), German surveyor and cartographer

Web links

• Blue foot in the digital family dictionary of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.123pilzsuche.de/daten/details/blaufusssamthaeubchen.htm
2. ↑ http://tintling.com/pilzbuch/arten/c/Conocybe_cyanopus.html
3. ↑ http://www.3000pilze.de/pilz/Blaufusssamthaeubchen.htm
4. ↑ nordrhein-westfalen.pilze-deutschland.de
5. ↑ https://www.ag-wanderfalken.de/2018/08/01/blaufussfalke/
6. ↑ Article: Der Blaufuß , in: Adelung - Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect
7. ↑ Excerpt from the street map of Wesel in Google Map