What we really wanted was the quintessential blue-footed booby shot, but in the millseconds when this bird wasn't preening, he'd lift a foot! Not sure why, but it never did cooperate with us -- well, except for not flying away as we encroached....
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Colombia,Costa Rica,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Guatemala,Honduras,Mexico,Nicaragua,Panama, Peru,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies
Group
Subspecies
Breeding Range
nebouxii
islands in c Gulf of California; Is. Tres Marietas (just off Nayarit, c Mexico), islands in Gulf of Fonseca (w Honduras) and off sw Panama, I. Gorgonilla (just w of sw Colombia) to nw Peru
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
