Booby comes from the Spanish 'bobo' meaning 'stupid fellow' ... but this long-winged seabird is one of the most engaging birds I know!
The Blue-footed Booby is one of my favorite birds because it really is a colorful creature. When I first saw the courtship dance of the male, I immediately fell in love with this bird. It's an exaggerated and very engaging step-walk that undoubtedly captivates the female. I am an avid photographer of birds and have an appreciation for birds with a comical personality such as the blue-footed booby.
So, do you think the blue-footed booby is adorable or what?
Blue-footed Booby dancing
Courtship Dance of the Blue-footed Booby
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.
Photo Credit: Photo © Mariko Yuki.
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Blue-footed Booby at a glance
Sula Nebouxii
The Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) is a bird in the Sulidae family which comprises ten species of long-winged seabirds.
The name ?booby? comes from the Spanish term bobo, which means "Stupid" or "Fool"/"Clown". This is because the Blue-footed Booby is clumsy on the land. Like other seabirds, they can be very tame.http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/blue-footed-booby.html
The natural breeding habitat of the Blue-footed Booby is tropical and subtropical islands off the Pacific Ocean, most famously, the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
Classification of the Blue-footed Booby
Source: Harris
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Pelecaniformes
- Family: Sulidae
- Genus: Sula
- Species: Sula nebouxii
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What's a Booby?
The Booby, a type of seabird, is part of the family Sulidae and the genus Sula. It is closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.
Boobies are large birds, with long pointed wings and long bills. They hunt fish, by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. Facial air sacs, under their skin, cushion the impact with the water. Boobies are colonial breeders on islands and coasts. They normally lay one or more chalky-blue eggs, on the ground or sometimes in a tree nest.
Their name is possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "dunce", as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten. Owing to this, Boobies are often mentioned as having been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably Captain Bligh of the Bounty and his loyalists, during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his mutineers.
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Tell me more about the Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site: wildlife is its most notable feature.
The Galápagos Islands form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador and are part of the country's national park system. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of around 40,000, which is a 40-fold expansion in 50 years.
The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
The first crude navigation chart of the islands was done by the buccaneer Ambrose Cowley in 1684. He named the individual islands after some of his fellow pirates or after the English noblemen who helped the privateer's cause. More recently, the Ecuadorian government gave most of the islands Spanish names. While the Spanish names are official, many users (especially ecological researchers) continue to use the older English names, particularly as those were the names used when Charles Darwin visited.
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Been to the Galapagos Islands or planning a trip there? Lucky duck! How do you feel about the Blue-footed Booby? Cute?
Tipi wrote...
I want a Blue Footed Booby, they are so neat! What a bird!
I must admit that I had heard on them, but never saw one before.
Where did they get their name again?
Bless you!
Susie
Posted June 06, 2009
Shelly wrote
The Blue Footed Booby is adorable and must keep all the other creatures on the Galapagos Islands in stiches! I can't remember ever seeing these guys before--certainly I wouldn't have forgotten anything so very cute. Thanks for the smiles!
Posted June 06, 2009
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
I read about this bird the other day and thought about doing a lens on him, but he's not a South Carolina Bird. He's a comical bird and I'm glad to see he had his "lens to fame".
Great Job!
Lizzy
Posted November 08, 2008
dc64 wrote...
I've never heard of these before, how did I miss them? They are so cool! Blue feet? Who would have thought that such birds existed. I still can't get over those blue feet.
Posted October 15, 2008
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