The decline is feared to be long-term, but annual data collection is needed for a firm conclusion that this is not a normal fluctuation. The Blue-Footed Booby population appears to having trouble breeding and thus is slowly declining. Blue-footed boobies make raucous or polysyllabic grunts or shout and thin whistling noises and there ritual displays are also a form of communication, hence mates can identify each other by there calls. Blue-Footed Booby hunts singly, in pairs, or in larger flocks. The boobies’ are having distinctive yellow color eyes with excellent binocular vision.
The blue-footed booby wings are brown color, neck and head are light brown with white streaks, belly and underside full white plumage. The boobies’ natural breeding habitats are tropical and subtropical islands of Pacific Ocean. The male will provide food for the young and chicks feed off the regurgitated fish in the adult’s mouth. Both male and female birds share parental responsibilities. Both male and female take turns incubating the eggs, and the incubation period is falling between 41–45 days. The blue-footed booby usually lays 1-3 eggs at a time, and they’re very caring to there chicks, use there webbed feet to cover and keep them warm. These birds hit the water around 97 km/h and have ability to go to depths of 25 meters below the water surface.Īdvertisement Both sexes start breeding between 1 to 6 years. Even, they can also dive from a sitting position on the water’s surface. These seabirds are exceptional divers, fold there long wings back around there streamlined bodies and plunge into the water from as high as 24 meters and swimming underwater in search of it’s prey. Blue-Footed Booby are flew in search of seafood, may fly far out to sea keeping an eye for schools of small fish in cooperative groups such as sardines, anchovies, mackerel, and flying fish. Similar to other boobies the blue-foot nest on land at night. The female bird is somewhat larger then the male and can measure up to 90 cm long with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m. The Galápagos Islands population includes about half of all breeding pairs of blue-footed boobies. These impressively beautiful feet birds live off the western coasts of central and South America. The blue feet are signs that reliably point toward the immunological and health condition of a booby, coloration is favored through sexual selection. Blue feet also indicate the current health condition of a booby, thus, the feet are rapid and honest indicators of a booby’s current level of nourishment. Because the blue-footed booby is clumsy on land regarded as foolish for there apparent fearlessness of humans. The booby species are thought to take there name from the Spanish word (bobo), means “stupid, clown, and Fool”. Therefore the bluer the feet, the mate considered more attractive. The Blue-Footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird in the family Sulidae, which includes ten species of long-winged seabirds. During mating rituals, male birds normally show off there feet to prospective mates with a high stepping strut. The female also tends to have darker blue feet and weighs slightly more than the male.Blue-Footed Boobies take great pride due to there marvelous feet. Mates communicate with each other by calling and are actually able to recognize one another based on these sounds as each individual has its own particular call. Their calls, on the other hand, are perhaps easier to distinguish as the male emits a high whistling sound whereas the female has a low honking call. Although it is only the effect of additional black pigmentation around the pupil, the eye pupil of the female appears to be larger than that of the males. It is relatively simple to distinguish the sexes of the Blue Footed Booby by both sight and sound. These beautiful pelican-like boobies are certainly the most famed and frequently seen of the Galapagos birds, yet of all the boobies the blue-footed actually has the smallest population and it has recently been discovered that their numbers are decreasing. They are more widely known for their dramatic plunge-diving, brilliant blue feet, and the stunning mating dances that hopeful males display for prospective females. Blue-footed boobies are large sea birds (70-90cm in length with a five-foot wingspan) that breed along the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean, from southern California to Peru.