Birds Why Are Masked Booby Endargered? November 15, 2024 Featured Articles Destinations Blue Footed Booby: A Symbol of Marine Biodiversity With its mating show, in which its vibrant baby blue feet are crucial, the blue footed booby has enthralled people for millennia. The other component of the...
Why keep a life list of birds? I share my own list, with watercolor sketches of many species, and make the case for the joy of keeping bird records.
Aboobyis a seabird in theSulagenus, part of the Sulidae family. Boobies are closely related to thegannets(Morus), which were formerly included inSula. Their name was possibly based on the Spanish slang termbobo, meaning “dunce”, as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing...
The number of birds observed attending the colony also increased overall to a high count of 164 in September 2021. We first observed Blue-footed Boobies in August 2018 and confirmed breeding 2 years later in June 2020 with a Brown and Blue-footed Booby pair that fledged a hybrid...
During an ongoing parasitic study of birds in New Zealand, a number of little blue and Fiordland crested penguins were discovered to harbour trematodes in their kidneys. DNA sequence and morphological comparisons with other species in the genus Renicola confirmed that these specimens were new to sci...
the marine life is breathtaking and, if you’re lucky, the penguins will put on a show for you as they duck in and out of the volcanic reef chasing enormous schools of fish. Overhead, you may see a Galapagos hawk, magnificent and great frigatebirds, or a blue-footed booby, as they ...
Volcanoes are a risky place to call home. Humankind has daringly settled near many of these explosive environments. So have some incredible animals that don’t merely survive, but thrive. From birds to shrimp, these animals are among the most resilient wildlife in the world. Believe it or not...
Only dominant individuals have unrestricted access to contested resources in group-living animals. In birds, subordinates with restricted access to resources may respond to intragroup contests by acquiring extra body reserves to avoid periods of food sho
Recombination of the putative clonally maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA has been detected in several animal species, including birds and mammals [18]. The frequency of such recombination, however, remains controversial; its estimation is not straightforward, as recombination under homoplasmy (i.e....
and when the time to return came, we passed near the islands, and marveled at one more spectacle: hundreds of marine birds of various species perched on the rocky formations. the Marieta Islands are a protected natural area and a bird sanctuary for marine birds like the blue footed booby. ...