Red-footed booby

Red-footed booby Temporal range: Holocene – recent[1]
White morph, Philippines
Brown morph, male, Galápagos Islands
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Suliformes
Family:	Sulidae
Genus:	Sula
Species:	S. sula
Binomial name
Sula sula (Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
Pelecanus sula Linnaeus, 1766 Pelecanus piscator Linnaeus, 1758 Sula piscator (Linnaeus, 1758)

The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. Adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings. They are found widely in the tropics, and breed colonially in coastal regions, especially isolated islands such as St. Brandon, Mauritius (Cargados Carajos shoals). The species faces few natural or man-made threats, although its population is declining; it is considered to be a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).