Blue-footed Booby

• The deeper the blue of its feet — a colour produced by carotenoid pigments in its diet — the better its condition, and mates choose accordingly.
• It eats small fish and squid caught by plunge-diving.
• It lives on arid islands and rocky coasts of the tropical eastern Pacific, including the Galápagos.
• reproducciónMales show off their bright blue feet in a courtship ritual of exaggerated high steps, and the intensity of the colour may tell females about their health.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - pneumatised bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Arid islands and rocky coasts of the tropical eastern Pacific, from Mexico to northern Peru, including the Galápagos

Birth weight

Weight at hatching not found as a precise figure

Size at birth

Covered in white down at hatching

Sexual maturity

1-6 years depending on sex and source (~3 years usually given)

Gestation / incubation

41-45 days

Litter / clutch size

2 to 3 eggs per clutch

Sources consulted: AnAge (genomics.senescence.info); NHPBS NatureWorks; Animal Diversity Web; Animalia.bio; MarineBio; The Animal Facts; PMC (El Niño survival study); Wikipedia (Blue-footed booby); Oiseaux-birds.com

The pins mark the parks and dive sites where its presence is documented.