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Galapagos Pictures - Blue-footed booby - Sula nebouxii

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Like many other birds though, once away from the ground and in their natural element, flying through the air, they become far more elegant and certainly not clown-like. They feed on fish which they usually catch inshore often in impressively large flocks. They catch fish by a power-dive starting as high as 15m and sometimes accelerated downwards by flapping the wings before sweeping the wings backwards on entry into the water in a deadly dart-shape.

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