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  • Nazca Boobies, (formerly Masked booby) (Sula granti) Mutual Preening<br />
Punta Cevallos, Española or Hood Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are intermediate between the blue-footed and red-footed booby. They are also plunge-divers but feed further afield than the blue-foots in the inter-island area. They have fewer large colonies but are widespread throughout the archipelago. Sexes are simular and like the blue-foots, nest on the ground. Usually their nests are near cliff edges. Although they lay 2 eggs they only ever raise one chick. The healthier chick pushed the other out of the guano ring - representing the nest. The parents ignore the battle known as 'obligate sibling murder' and leave the chick to its fate.
    1G5086_Nazca_Boobies.jpg
  • Nazca Boobies (formerly Masked booby) (Sula granti)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
Galapagos Islands<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are intermediate between the blue-footed and red-footed booby. They are also plunge-divers but feed further afield than the blue-foots in the inter-island area. They have fewer large colonies but are widespread throughout the archipelago. Sexes are simular and like the blue-foots, nest on the ground. Usually their nests are near cliff edges. Although they lay 2 eggs they only ever raise one chick. The healthier chick pushed the other out of the guano ring - representing the nest. The parents ignore the battle known as 'obligate sibling murder' and leave the chick to its fate.
    2G1771_Nazca_Boobies.tif
  • Nazca Boobies (formerly Masked booby) (Sula granti)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
Galapagos Islands<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are intermediate between the blue-footed and red-footed booby. They are also plunge-divers but feed further afield than the blue-foots in the inter-island area. They have fewer large colonies but are widespread throughout the archipelago. Sexes are simular and like the blue-foots, nest on the ground. Usually their nests are near cliff edges. Although they lay 2 eggs they only ever raise one chick. The healthier chick pushed the other out of the guano ring - representing the nest. The parents ignore the battle known as 'obligate sibling murder' and leave the chick to its fate.
    2G1757_Nazca_Boobies.tif
  • Red-footed booby (Sula sula websteri) sitting on nest<br />
Tower (Genovesa) Island<br />
Galapagos Islands<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are found in only 5 main colonies in the islands. Always situated on the outer islands, close to deep, oceanic water - their preferred feeding area. Although the most numerous booby in Galapagos (140,000 pairs in Genovesa) the species is not often seen unless an actual coloney is visited. Red-footed boobies are the smallest of the boobies and as they can feed hundred's of miles offshore only manage to bring back enough food to raize one chick. They are the only booby with prehensile feet and nest in trees and bushes rather than on the gound as the Blue-foots and Nazca booby do.
    GC249_Red-footed_booby.tif
  • Red-footed booby (Sula sula websteri)<br />
Tower (Genovesa) Island<br />
Galapagos Islands<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are found in only 5 main colonies in the islands. Always situated on the outer islands, close to deep, oceanic water - their preferred feeding area. Although the most numerous booby in Galapagos (140,000 pairs in Genovesa) the species is not often seen unless an actual coloney is visited. Red-footed boobies are the smallest of the boobies and as they can feed hundred's of miles offshore only manage to bring back enough food to raize one chick. They are the only booby with prehensile feet and nest in trees and bushes rather than on the gound as the Blue-foots and Nazca booby do.
    IS2089_Red-footed_booby.jpg
  • Red-footed Booby (Sula sula websteri)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are found in only 5 main colonies in the islands. Always situated on the outer islands, close to deep, oceanic water - their preferred feeding area. Although the most numerous booby in Galapagos (140,000 pairs in Genovesa) the species is not often seen unless an actual coloney is visited. Red-footed boobies are the smallest of the boobies and as they can feed hundred's of miles offshore only manage to bring back enough food to raize one chick. They are the only booby with prehensile feet and nest in trees and bushes rather than on the gound as the Blue-foots and Nazca booby do.
    2G1792_Red-footed_Booby.tif
  • Red-footed Booby (Sula sula websteri)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are found in only 5 main colonies in the islands. Always situated on the outer islands, close to deep, oceanic water - their preferred feeding area. Although the most numerous booby in Galapagos (140,000 pairs in Genovesa) the species is not often seen unless an actual coloney is visited. Red-footed boobies are the smallest of the boobies and as they can feed hundred's of miles offshore only manage to bring back enough food to raize one chick. They are the only booby with prehensile feet and nest in trees and bushes rather than on the gound as the Blue-foots and Nazca booby do.
    2G1838_Red-footed_Booby.tif
  • Red-footed Booby (Sula sula websteri)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are found in only 5 main colonies in the islands. Always situated on the outer islands, close to deep, oceanic water - their preferred feeding area. Although the most numerous booby in Galapagos (140,000 pairs in Genovesa) the species is not often seen unless an actual coloney is visited. Red-footed boobies are the smallest of the boobies and as they can feed hundred's of miles offshore only manage to bring back enough food to raize one chick. They are the only booby with prehensile feet and nest in trees and bushes rather than on the gound as the Blue-foots and Nazca booby do.
    2G1823_Red-footed_Booby.tif
  • Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) Chick being harrassed by Nazca boobies, (formerly Masked booby) (Sula granti)<br />
Punta Cevallos, Española Island, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
ENDEMIC TO GALAPAGOS. <br />
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED<br />
However a few pairs nest on Isla de la Plata near the Ecuadorian mainland. +-12,000 pairs breed on the Island of Española in Galapagos. They only come ashore between April and December to breed, otherwise they spend their entire life at sea. Once an albatross chick fledges and goes to sea it will remain there until it is 4 years old before returning to land to breed for the first time. Albatross mate for life and live about 40 years. They form part of the family of tube-nosed birds.
    4GL63_Waved_Albatross_Chick_&_Nazca_...tif
  • Nazca Booby (formerly Masked booby) (Sula granti)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
Galapagos Islands<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
They are intermediate between the blue-footed and red-footed booby. They are also plunge-divers but feed further afield than the blue-foots in the inter-island area. They have fewer large colonies but are widespread throughout the archipelago. Sexes are simular and like the blue-foots, nest on the ground. Usually their nests are near cliff edges. Although they lay 2 eggs they only ever raise one chick. The healthier chick pushed the other out of the guano ring - representing the nest. The parents ignore the battle known as 'obligate sibling murder' and leave the chick to its fate.
    2G1937_Nazca_Booby.tif
  • Nazca Booby(Sula granti)<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS,<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
ENDEMIC
    20141215_Nazca_Booby_34.jpg
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Tower Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161211_Nazca_booby_46.tif
  • Nazca Booby (Sula granti)<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS,<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
ENDEMIC
    1033 Day 5 Nazca booby.jpg
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Vicente Roca, Isabela Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161124_Nazca_booby_3.tif
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Española Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161216_Nazca_booby_51.jpg
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Española Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161216_Nazca_booby_71.tif
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Española Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161216_Nazca_booby_60.tif
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Tower Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161211_Nazca_booby_37.tif
  • Nazca booby (Sula granti)<br />
Tower Island<br />
GALAPAGOS,  Ecuador, South America
    20161211_Nazca_booby_14.tif
  • Sharp-beaked Ground-Finch (Geospiza difficilis) pair feeding on blood from Nazca Booby (Sula granti), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
    Minden_00427380.jpg
  • Vampire Finch or Sharp-beaked Ground Finch (Geospiza difficilis) feeding on blood from Nazca Booby. (Sula granti)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
On Darwin and Wolf Islands this species has developed the interesting feeding habit of pecking the base of the back feathers until the bird bleeds and drinking the blood. Normally they feed on bird lice but this is probably due to the pausity of food and water on these two islands.
    2G1846_Vampire_Finch_&_Nazca_Booby.tif
  • Vampire Finch or Sharp-beaked Ground Finch (Geospiza difficilis) feeding on blood from Nazca Booby. (Sula granti)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
On Darwin and Wolf Islands this species has developed the interesting feeding habit of pecking the base of the back feathers until the bird bleeds and drinking the blood. Normally they feed on bird lice but this is probably due to the pausity of food and water on these two islands.
    2G1896_Vampire_Finch_&_Nazca_Booby.tif
  • Vampire Finch or Sharp-beaked Ground Finch (Geospiza difficilis) feeding on blood from Nazca Booby. (Sula granti)<br />
Wolf Island<br />
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS<br />
ECUADOR.  South America<br />
On Darwin and Wolf Islands this species has developed the interesting feeding habit of pecking the base of the back feathers until the bird bleeds and drinking the blood. Normally they feed on bird lice but this is probably due to the pausity of food and water on these two islands.
    2G1858_Vampire_Finch_&_Nazca_Booby.tif
  • 1PL403_Nazca_Booby_&_Chick.TIF
  • 1026 Day 5 Nazca booby.jpg
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