Blue-footed Boobies by Ken _Gilliland

Vue • Animals • posted on Feb 18, 2009

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Description

The Blue-footed Booby is found on the western coast of the Americas and the Galapagos Islands. The name 'booby' comes from the Spanish term bobo, which means "Stupid". This is because the Blue-footed Booby is clumsy on the land. Like other seabirds, they can be very tame. Blue-foots will make raucous or polysyllabic grunts or shouts and thin whistle noise. The males of the species have been known to throw up their head and whistle at a female flying by. Their ritual displays are also a form of communication. Blue-footed Boobies are specialized fish eaters feeding on school fish. They dive into the ocean, sometimes from a great height, and swim underwater in pursuit of its prey. It hunts singly, in pairs or in larger flocks. They travel in parties of 12 or so to areas of water with large schools of small fish. When the lead bird sees a fish shoal in the water, it will signal the rest of the group and they will all dive together to catch the fish. Another one of my Seabirds...