The reproducing cycle is extremely long - lasting almost two years. It starts with a courtship parade, during which the male pumps up his gular sack. As a female passes by, he shakes his open wings and calls. It's a really beautiful event to see. This frigatebird is a real air pirate. Because it ahs lost the impermeability of his plumage, it is limited to steal the other birds' preys. It eats turtle eggs and the newborns of the other birds.
Blue-footed Boobies.
You may have wondered why this bird is called that. Well, it is because of what he eats(blue crabs).And also, when the first spanish navigators came there and saw that the bird wasn't afraid of them, they called him bobo (stupid in spanish), where the word booby comes from. The blue-footed booby is the middle-sized one of the three kinds of boobies found in the archipelago. The best way you could recognize an adult is by his blue legs and feet (which can alternate in color from lilac to turquoise). The top parts are essentially brown, except for the white posterior and black tail. The head is striped with brown and white, and the beak is a silvery-grey color. The male is always lighter than the female (about 1.28 kg against 1.80 kg), and dives easier than her. We recognize him by the small black pupil of his eye, whereas the dark coloration of the iris on the female gives the impression that her eye is bigger. The male whistles admiratively. During the love period, the male dances with his blue feet, opens his wings, and whistles pointing his beak at the sky. Meanwhile, the female shows off by putting her beak in her white chest. This funny ceremonial has been called the « Sky pointing display ». It might happen that a jealous suitor joins the couple in parade, trying to get the female's attention, but the performance is not always appreciated and a conflict followed by a beak fight is inevitable. The population is of 10,000 birds, and large colonies have been found on Española, Daphné, Tagus Cove, the west coast of Isabela, and Fernandina.
