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Red-Footed Booby

Sula sula

Description:

Typical booby body build. Brilliant red feet. Light blue beak and blue around eye; pink around nares and lower jaw. This is the brown morph - this type has a brown body with dark brown wings.

Habitat:

These photos were taken in the red mangrove fringes along the beach at Genovesa Island in the Galapagos.

Notes:

There are several different color morphs of this species.

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5 Comments

MishaCainNell
MishaCainNell 12 years ago

Thank you!

Wild Things
Wild Things 12 years ago

Beautiful.

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Amazing face

MishaCainNell
MishaCainNell 12 years ago

Thanks! He was very kind and posed quite nicely!

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Grate shot

MishaCainNell
Spotted by
MishaCainNell

Parroquia Huaquillas, Provincia de El Oro, Ecuador

Spotted on Sep 19, 2011
Submitted on Jan 22, 2012

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