Thursday, April 29, 2010

Facts

On average a blue footed booby can live up to seventeen years old in the wild.

Blue footed boobies live at sea and islands off the western coast of central and south America.About half of all booby pairs live on the Galgos islands which are a group of islands about 600 miles away from mainland Ecuador.

There isn't just the blue footed booby there are nazca, brown and red footed boobies.



Here is a picture of a Red footed booby.

I got it off google images.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Mating

During mating season the mail boobies wave their feet around to attract the females. Females normally pick the male with the most striking blue feet. When the mating ritual happens blue footed boobies swing their legs in a circular motion while walkin around the females. When male Boobies are ready to mate there feet go a lighter shade of blue. Males do everything they can so that the females will notice their feet. In the mating ritual the male and female both dance around together with the bill's pointed to they sky and the male flaps his wings in and out, the male also bring materials for a nest. The couple don't make much of a nest the female just lays one to three eggs in a hole.


Blue footed boobies generally live together in big colonies and each pair of boobies generally have a brood which is their child. When the egges are layed both parents keep the egg's warm by standing over them with their feet.

When the egg's hatch the chicks must stay close to their parents because boobies don't retrieve chicks that go astray. The parents will feed and protect their chicks until they are two months old, by then the the young boobies can look after themselves and start the cycle again.

here is a short video of a male booby doing the mating dancing showing off his feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCNQFantLME

Friday, April 23, 2010

Characteristics of the booby



The blue footed boobies are found off the the eastern pacific ocean to the galápagos islands andf California.

In this post i will talk to you about the characteristics of the bird.

The blue footed booby has a long neck and long and sharp bill. There feet are bright blue, and obviously that's where they get their name from. The blue footed booby is a little under three foot tall and it's wingspan can go up to 5 feet long.



I got this picture from national geographic:

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Introduction

Hello my name is shane
I am doing my blog on blue footed boobies which are a bird from the Galapagos islands.