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SpeciesSuliformesSulidae
Birds

🐦Blue-footed booby

Sula nebouxii Milne-Edwards, 1882

Terej modronohý (Sula nebouxii) je mořský pták z čeledi terejovitých, který se přirozeně vyskytuje v tropických a subtropických vodách východní části Tichého oceánu.

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≈ 1/41st of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.52 kg
Body length
0.84 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
18 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blue-footed booby

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.52 kgrecord 1.8 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.8 kgWikidataQ457267
  • Male1.28 kgWikidataQ457267

Figures vary

  • 1.53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.84 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.21 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.41 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
41 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Marine
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.5 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Blue-footed booby yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSuliformes
  5. ›familySulidae
  6. ›genusSula
  7. ›speciesSula nebouxii
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familySulidae
  4. genusSula
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familySulidae
  11. genusSula
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mascarell camablau (ca), terej modronohý (cs), Blåfodet Sule (da), Blaufußtölpel (de), Sula nebouxii (es), sinijalkasuula (fi) … and 26 more languages

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