Red-footed Booby

Red-footed booby Sula sula
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Length: ? inches
Sexes similar
Pelagic bird only coming ashore to breed
Large bird that dives for fish from air
Takes 2 to 3 years to reach adult plumage
Smallest booby ...

Red-footed Booby
You can also see Masked Booby and Brown Boody on the island. I did not see the Masked Booby as it was nesting on Eastern Island and we were not allowed to walk in that direction.

Red-Footed Booby Range
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Type: Bird Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: Over 20 years Size: 25 to 30 in (64 to 76 cm) Weight: 30 to 39 oz (850 to 1,100 g) Group name: Colony Did you know?

Red-footed Booby, Sula sula
Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster
Brewster's Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster brewsteri ...

Red-footed booby (Sula sula)
Little stint (Calidris minuta)
Long-toed stint (Calidris subminuta)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)
Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)
Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) ...

The red-footed booby is slightly smaller than the blue-footed booby but the red-footed booby is known to have a wider range from the Galapagos islands to the Caribbean.

The masked, red-footed booby Sula sula, and brown booby Sula leucogaster (pictured here) are found the world over; the Peruvian and blue-footed S. nebouxii boobies, on the west coasts of the Americas; and the Abbott's booby, in the Indian Ocean.

Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Red-footed Booby Sula dactylatra
[edit] Genus Morus
Cape Gannet Morus capensis
Australian Gannet Morus serrator ...

Adult Brown Booby has sharp border between dark brown chest and white belly, and will be mostly unspotted brown.
Red-footed Booby has pale face and black extending along the back of the wings.
Gannet has feathering in front of eyes, boobies do not.

South Polar Skua may be one of the most likely pelagic rarities. Brown Booby, Red-footed Booby, Red Phalarope, Long-tailed Jaeger, Roseate Tern, Brown Noddy, ...

See also: Booby, Brown Booby, Masked booby, Gannet, Seabird