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Sula nebouxii (Blue-footed Booby)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species of the genus Sula—known as boobies. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait. Males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female. The female is slightly larger than the male and can measure up to 90 cm (35 in) long with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (5 ft).
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Infraspecies

Sula nebouxii excisa
Sula nebouxii nebouxii (Blue-footed booby)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.07577
EDGE Score: 2.31013
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.40 lbs (1.542 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  61 grams
Female Weight [5]  3.971 lbs (1.801 kg)
Male Weight [5]  2.829 lbs (1.283 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [5]  40.4 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal cliffs and islands, Coastal marine, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Coastal marine
Diet [4]  Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  100 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  2.244 inches (57 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.614 inches (41 mm)
Fledging [1]  3 months 12 days
Incubation [6]  41 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [6]  18 years
Speed [7]  22.973 MPH (10.27 m/s)
Wing Span [7]  5.248 feet (1.6 m)
Female Maturity [1]  2 years 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nelson, JB (1978). The Sulidae: Gannets and boobies. Oxford, Oxford University Press
♦ 6de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 7Species- and sex-specific differences in foraging behaviour and foraging zones in blue-footed and brown boobies in the Gulf of California, Henri Weimerskirch, Scott A. Shaffer, Yann Tremblay, Daniel P. Costa, Hélène Gadenne, Akiko Kato, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Katsufumi Sato, David Aurioles, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 391: 267–278, 2009
♦ 8Diving behavior of blue-footed boobies Sula nebouxii in northern Peru in relation to sex, body size and prey type, Carlos B. Zavalaga, Silvano Benvenuti, Luigi Dall’Antonia, Steven D. Emslie, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 336: 291–303, 2007
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0