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Sula sula (Red-footed Booby)

Synonyms: Pelecanus sula
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. As suggested by the name, adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings. They are found widely in the tropics, and breed colonially in coastal regions, especially islands.
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Infraspecies

Sula sula rubripes (Hawaiian red-footed booby) (Attributes)
Sula sula sula (Red-footed booby)
Sula sula websteri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.983
EDGE Score: 2.83221
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  1
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Egg Length [2]  2.402 inches (61 mm)
Egg Width [2]  1.614 inches (41 mm)
Fledging [2]  3 months 11 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  1,400,000
Incubation [4]  44 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  23 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Coastal
Wing Span [7]  38 inches (.96 m)
Adult Weight [2]  2.205 lbs (1.00 kg)
Birth Weight [4]  40 grams
Female Weight [2]  2.355 lbs (1.068 kg)
Male Weight [2]  2.057 lbs (933 g)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  14.5 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [3]  Tropical Oceans
Wintering Habitat [3]  Coastal marine, Pelagic
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [5]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  50 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  2 years
Male Maturity [4]  2 years

Ecoregions

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pectinopygus sulae[10]

Range Map

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Hamish 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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 8Jorrit 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.
♦ 9FEEDING ECOLOGY OF TWO SUBTROPICAL SEABIRD SPECIES AT FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS. HAWAII, Michael P. Seki and Craig S. Harrison, BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE. 45(1): 52-67, 1989
♦ 10Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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