Red-footed booby [1] ( lat. Sula sula ) - bird of the genus booby .
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 Red-footed booby in Tubbatah Reef Natural Park, Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sula sula ( Linnaeus , 1766 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Distribution and lifestyle
- 3 Subspecies
- 4 Photos
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Description
The color of the feathers of the species is white , light gray or light brown , the legs are reddish , webbed, and the beak is blue (light blue) . The trailing edge of the wing is black . The body length of the red-footed booby is about 70 cm , the wingspan is about 1.5 m . Young red-footed boobies look like brown counterparts . [2]
Distribution and lifestyle
Typically, the species lives in the Pacific Ocean , large colonies are found on the island of Tobago . It nests mainly on the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean, less often on the Indian and Atlantic . Nests are built from sticks in a shrub , usually laying one egg , which takes about 45 days to lay. Adult individuals were seen in the north, right up to the Tatar Strait and the south of the Kuril ridge . [3]
The main diet is small fish and squid .
Subspecies
Eastern red-footed booby ( Sula sula rubripes ). [four]
Photo
egg Sula sula - Toulouse Museum
Adult male red-footed boobies of brown color, Genoves Island, Galapagos Archipelago | ||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 20. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Copepods
- ↑ Dummies
- ↑ Edited by G.P. Dementiev and N.A. Gladkov. Birds of the Soviet Union. - Moscow: Soviet science, 1951. - S. 67-68. - 658 p.