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Cold feet!
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Copyright: Richard Mayneord (richwm) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 143 W: 33 N: 281] (1189)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-08-26
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS-30D, Canon 70-300mm IS USM
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/400 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-03-06 5:22
Viewed: 873
Points: 12
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
A Blue-footed Booby perched on a small rock near the cliff top on Espanola Island in the Galapagos archipelago.

There are 3 types of Booby (we're just talking birds here, ok! ;) ) and they are the Blue-footed Booby, the Red-footed Booby and the Nazca Booby and they are all related to the Gannet family.

Despite being the least numerous of the 3 types of Booby, the Blue-footed Booby is the one you are most likely to come across in the Galapagos Islands. The Red-footed Booby is the most numerous with approximately 250,000 pairs but due to the fact that it nests in only a few remote locations, it is the species least seen by visitors.

All the Boobies are master divers and plunge-dive from great heights into shoals of fish like airborne torpedoes and the Blue-footed Booby is the greatest diver of them all diving from the greatest height and plunging to the greatest depth to grab a mouthful of fish. When it hits the water it is travelling at somewhere in the region of 80km/h which is quite phenomenal!

Oh, incidentally, the unflattering name 'Booby' apparently came about because early seafarers found them easy to kill at their nests which are built on the ground in seemingly random spots near cliff-tops.

This photo has had a small border added in Photoshop but is otherwise as taken.
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Hi Richard
So sharp and close; beautiful bird and picture of course.
Thanks for sharing
Greetings from Holland
Albrecht

Hi Richard

very nice photo. good moment and colours but it looks like there is a mistake in lens you mentioned. exif shows it was 300mm so it wasen't 28-135 I suppose :)

greetings
Grzegorz

PS Lens very quick corrected :)

Hi Richard,
Great Shot!!
The colors are beautiful with nice sharpness.
well done.Congratulation.
TFS and
best regards
bulent

Hi, you captured this bird really well, the clarity and detail are great. The title is very good and I like the information. Thanks, Jean

Hi Richard!
Nice DOF!
I was there few months ago and i was impressed of these blue-footed boobies! I'm about to send one of those soon!
It's sad that animals picture don't get anough appreciation... Maybe it is because of TrekNature!
Simon

Hi Richard,
Very nice POV and colours. According to my rather reduced british colloquialisms, you call "Boobies" to policemen as well?? Funny
Regards,
Alonso

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