Sulidae-Santilli

The Blue- Footed Booby



﻿ One of the world's most funniest, clumsiest animals, the Blue- Footed Booby can also be the most interesting. Blue- Footed boobies fly swiftly in the air, but move clumsily on the ground. In fact they were named after their clumsiness. They eat by plunging into ocean for different types of fish. Some examples are sardines, anchovies, makerel, flying fish, squid, and offal. It takes them between two to three years to mature to an adult, and they live to about seventeen ﻿years old. They grow to be three feet long, and have a wingspand of five feet. Three ways they have adapted is that females because of their body mass can plunge further out in the ocean for food. Another adaptation is that they use their humerous, blue feet to warm their eggs. The last adaptation is that males can whistle to signal each other if there is food. Female Blue- Footed Boobie's eggs hatch after about forty- five days. She would lay either two or three eggs. Some differences between males and females is that females have more body mass than males. Females can also search further for food than males. One last difference is that males can whistle, but females croak. The Blue- Footed Boobies classification is Kingdom - Animalia  Phylum - Chordata  Class - Aves  Order - Pelecaniformes  Family - Sulidae  Genus - Sula  Species - //Sula neboxuii//

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The Blue- Footed Boobie's family is the Sulidae. This consists of medium- large, coastal, seabirds that plunge for fish. They are carnivors, have stout legs, and webbed feet. Some examples of Sulidae are the Brown Booby, the Northern Gannet, Fledgling Abbott's Booby, and the Blue- Footed Booby. That is the family Sulidae and the Blue- Footed Booby.

Other sites for info on the Blue- Footed Booby: Birding.in Galapagos and Equador Guide Natureworks Wikipedia

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