Crazy About Birds

By Kimb

Blue-footed Booby Dance

On Santa Fe Island, at Punta Pitt - A pair of blue-footed boobies, dancing! She is on the left, he is on the right. You can tell the sexes apart because the pupil of the male's eye is smaller than the pupil of the female's eye - and she is also bigger than he is. We also saw a lot of boobies already tending to chicks of various sizes.

The extras: A Santa Fe Mockingbird, and a pair of red-footed boobies, one of whom is the white morph. They are next to their nest in a small tree - and you can see how they can grip the branch with their webbed feet.

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