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Behold the Blue-footed Booby

10,000 Birds

They are daring divers, powerful underwater swimmers, and cooperative hunters. However, Sula nebouxii is most closely associated with Ecuador’s evocative Galápagos Islands. Anyone who has observed gannets or boobies in action can attest to how impressive their acrobatics can be. sula ) and Nazca Booby ( S.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.