After the waved albatross colony, we saw a few Nasca Boobies and finally the blue footed booby colony. As the name implies, blue footed boobies have blue feet, though scientists are not sure why. They have a funny looking mating dance in which they take exaggerated steps and do skypointing - it which the beak points to sky while the wings are turned up (see photo). Blue footed boobies are also known for their fishing ability, in which they swoop down from sky and make their bodies as streamlined as possible and dive straight into the water like a bullet, catching fish as much as 3 or 4 feet down. Here they were nesting, some couple had eggs, and other had baby blue footed boobies.
