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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sula sula

Red-Footed Booby

WoRMS 212596ITIS 174707key itis:174707
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2026-08-05: worms_id 212596 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sula sula
Red-Footed Booby77 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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A Red-footed Booby Sula sula rubripes in its typical white colour morph at the Tubbataha Reef National Park in the Philippines. Photographed in 2012 by Gregg Yan.
Photo · Gregg Yan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

The red-footed booby is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. Adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2000 and 2019.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
2000–2019
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:174707%22