Blue booby facts

The word booby comes from the spanish word bobo which means fool. They got this name because they allowed people capture them and kill them and they just stood there because the Galapagos islands where not inhabated by people for hundreads of years and the boobies are not prey for any other animal so they saw no reason to be scared of anyone so when the English came they killed to boobies and they just stood there and didn't run away.

The male Blue-footed Booby bird brings food back to the nest for the female bird and the chicks. The chicks take regurgitated fish from their parents beaks.

The diet of the Blue-footed Booby consists entirely of fish. It dives into the ocean, sometimes from a great height, and swims underwater in pursuit of its prey. It hunts singly, in pairs or in larger flocks. When the lead bird sees a fish shoal in the water, it will signal the rest of the group and they will all dive together to catch the fish.

The colour of the feet in these boobies ranges in the tones of blue from electric blue or indigo blue and even turquoise blue and it has nothing to do either with gender or age of the boobies. Nobody knows why this blue colour was selected by nature but it is helpful for the boobies to recognize their own kind.