Red Footed Blue Beak

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Red Footed Blue Beak
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Copyright: Way Lim (waylim) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 127 W: 2 N: 209] (707)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2003-08
Categories: Birds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-03-28 23:17
Viewed: 466
Points: 16
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The Red-footed Booby, Sula sula, is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae.

This species breeds on island is not in most tropical oceans. It winters at sea, and is therefore rarely seen away from the breeding colonies. It nests in large colonies, laying one chalky blue egg in a stick nest in a tree, which is incubated by both adults for 44-46 days. It may be three months before the young first fly, and five months before they make extensive flights.

Red-footed Booby pairs may remain together over several seasons. They perform elaborate greeting rituals, including harsh squawks and the male’s display of his blue throat.

It's the smallest of all boobies, at 71 cm in length and a 137 cm wingspan. It has red legs, and the bill and throat pouch are coloured pink and blue. This species has two plumage forms. The white phase is basically white with black on the flight feathers. The brown form is brown with a white belly rump and tail. Both forms may occur together, as in the breeding colony on St. Giles Island, Tobago.

The sexes are similar, but young birds are greyish with browner wings and pink legs.

Red-footed Boobies are spectacular divers, plunging into the ocean at high speed. They mainly eat small fish or squid which gather in groups near the surface. Although they are powerful and agile fliers, they are particularly clumsy in takeoffs and landings.

Source: Wikipedia

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Hi Way,

I also thank you for your visit and nice comments. Highly appreciated!

What a beautiful Booby image you are showing us here again.
Great to see the difference between this red footed and the blue feet you did upload as previous one.
Technically you did an excellent job.
Very good note also.
Sharpnes and exposure are perfect and due to that details are most wonderful.
Also love the pose of the bird and the color contrast very much.
TFS!!!

Best regards and have a nice weekend,

Harry

hello Way

i remember your last image the bird has an amazing foot,
i went back to see it and it is not the same bird,

another lovely nature shot of around the world,
fine POV and framing, excellent DOF, i love the branches
all around the bird, great details of the plumage, TFS

Asbed

Hello Way,
This prima ballerina has an oversized pair of red shoes:-)
TFS
Annick

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  • Adanac Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1043 W: 1 N: 4025] (13236)
  • [2008-03-29 14:39]

Hello Way,
I always wondered how birds with webbed feet land in trees and bushes. Sharp and colorful composition, great work Way, thank you.
Rick

Hi Way,
Another great shot of these muticolroured birds. It seems to me that they come as different colored spare parts and you can assemble these parts to get different and beautiful color combinations of these birds :) Very unique shots Way. I haven't ever seen these birds...neither in books nor on Nat geo. Good work!!

TFS
Kirti

Hello Way Lim. Nice capture of this bird/duck in natural surrounding. I like the perch and sharpness exposing the plumage well in beautiful color. Well done and best regards. Jusni

Hi Way, okay, it's time for a rhetorical question. I wonder if red footed and blue footed boobies ever get together. Then I wonder what the hybrid offspring would look like.

This sounds and looks like a very large bird. I've seen the blue footed before (I think here on TN) but I don't remember ever seeing the red footed. Very nice capture on your part with good composition. The quality is not bad (in fact good) considering it came from a slide. The bird might be just a little sharper, but in doing this you would need to be careful to not affect the background (with some kind of masking). I would love to see one of these close up like this.

Thanks, John

Hi way ncie shot
I really like the contrast and the colours here also a very beatifull bird you show us
thanks for sharing
toba

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