Blue-Footed Booby Bird

Wildlife Photo: Blue-Footed Booby Bird

Dodo birds may be extinct, but thankfully we still have the whimsical and wonderfully weird blue-footed booby birds.

Without a care for visiting tourists in the Galapagos these birds freely put on mating displays and build nests in the middle of hiking trails. Their impressive diving capabilities are a stark contrast to their somewhat clumsy shuffling they do when walking on land. The big blue feet apparently are good for scratching too.

Blue-Footed Booby Bird
A Blue-Footed Booby striking a pose on Espanola Island, Galapagos

 

2 thoughts on “Wildlife Photo: Blue-Footed Booby Bird”

    1. Hey Carol! Pretty sure this is a he…one way to tell the females and males apart, when they are all standing around together…is that the females have larger pupils….smaller pupils (like this guy) usually mean it’s a male!

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