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Blue-footed Booby Sounds

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Galápagos, December 19, 2009Recorded by Wesley Lee / Macaulay Library
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Galápagos, January 09, 1981Recorded by Arnoud B. van den Berg / Macaulay Library
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Galápagos, February 16, 1962Recorded by Robert I. Bowman / Macaulay Library

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Calls

Blue-footed Boobies are seldom heard vocalizing at sea except when squabbling over prey, when they occasionally make guttural braying sounds. Nesting birds give whistling (males) and hoarse quacking (females, young) sounds.

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Boobies and Gannets(Order: Suliformes, Family: Sulidae)

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