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A Galapagos Island blue-footed booby.
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The younger a blue-footed booby, the brighter its feet. Blue feet play a key role in courtship, with the male displaying (raising) its feet to attract females.
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This close up of a blue-footed booby reveals the bird's deep blue bill and rich plumage.
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The fearless blue-footed booby is unfazed by humans, even while caring for its young. Approximately one half of all blue-footed booby breeding pairs in the Pacific nest on the Galapagos Islands.
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A pair of blue-footed boobies engaged in a mating dance on Espanola Island.
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The blue-footed booby, here standing on a lava rock, is a marine bird native to tropical and sub-tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its diet consists mainly of fish, which it catches by diving and sometimes swimming underwater.
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A masked booby on Espanola Island.
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Closeup of a Galapagos tortoise.
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Diego, an Espanola tortoise at the Charles Darwin research station on Santa Cruz Island, was returned to the Galapagos in 1977 from the San Diego Zoo in California, where he had lived since the 1930s.
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