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RED-FOOTED BOOBY FACTS |
Description
The Red-footed Booby blue bill with pink base, and pink or red feet. There are different colour variations. The light ones are white with black wing flight feathers, and yellowish tinge on head. The dark ones have light grey head and body and darker grey wings and back.. There is also an intermediate form with white body and with brown or grey back and wings. The immatures are all mottled brown with black bills and grey feet.
Other Names
Red-footed Gannet
Size
66 - 79cm. Wingspan 1.4m
Habitat
Oceans. Roosts on coral cays
Food
dives for fish at sea
Breeding
Nest is platform of sticks in bush or tree. Lays one greenish white egg.
Range
Tropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Seen on Great Barrier Reef. Breeds on Raine Island, Ashmore Island, various coral cays in south west Coral Sea.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Procellariiformes | | Family: | Sulidae | | Genus: | Sula | | Species: | sula | | Common Name: | Red-footed Booby |
Relatives in same Genus
Masked Booby (S. dactylatra)
Brown Booby (S. leucogaster)
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