Blue-Footed Booby (Sula nebouxii)

Photo © Mariko Yuki

Blue-Footed Booby (Sula nebouxii)

About the Blue-Footed Booby

The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is an adorable seabird with bright seafoam-blue webbed feet and a blue-gray face to match. The blue-footed booby belongs the Order Pelecaniformes (Pelicans and their relatives) and has long pointed wings and a narrow pointed bill.

Male blue-footed boobies show off their blue feet during their courtship dance, in which he picks up his feet and displays them in an exagerated step-walk.

There are approximately 40,000 breeding pairs of blue-footed boobies in the world and half of them inhabit the Galapagos Islands.

Find out more: Blue-Footed Boobie (Sula nebouxii)

Sources

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