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The Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae, seen here on Isla Genovesa (or Tower Island), Ecuador, South America. They are powerful and agile fliers but clumsy in takeoffs and landings. The Red-footed Booby is the smallest of all boobies at 71 cm in length and with a 137 cm wingspan. It has red legs with pink and blue bill and throat pouch. This species has two plumage forms. The white phase is mostly white with black on the flight feathers. The brown form is brown with a white belly, rump, and tail. The sexes are similar, and young birds are greyish with browner wings and pink legs.found in tropical islands. Isla Genovesa (or Tower Island) is a shield volcano in the Galápagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This island is known as Bird Island, because of the large and varied bird colonies which nest here. Prince Philip’s Steps is a steep path up a 25 meter cliff to a seabird colony full of life amidst a thin palo santo forest and rocky plain.