Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Blue-footed Booby

The Blue-footed Booby is a marine bird in the Sulidae. They are found in the Galapagos Islands. This have ten different long-winged seabird species. There are six different kinds of boobies. These birds was found by Charles Darwin. These birds are know by there blue feet which is used as a sexually selected trait. During mating time the male birds perform a dance in front of the female birds to get them to mate with them. The males lift there feet up and down and move around to do there dance. The blue-footed booby mate in tropical and subtropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The female birds are bigger than the male bird. They eat fish which causes them to dive and swim underwater. They do lay eggs they lay one to three at a time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-footed_Booby
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