Red-footed Booby
Sula sula
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Boobies and Gannets (Sulidae)
- Order
- Suliformes
Overview
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, harnessing the wind to fly efficiently, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings. They forage by catching flying fish from above the ocean's surface and by performing shallow dives.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Cape Verde
- China
- Christmas Island
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Grenada
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Mozambique
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Reunion
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Suriname
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- United States
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Red-footed booby
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
