Blue-footed boobies are aptly named, and males take great pride in their fabulous feet. During mating rituals, male birds show off their feet to prospective mates with a high-stepping strut.

Long wings; relatively short tail; straight, sharply pointed largely blue-gray bill with a blackish ... Immature male: like female, but by spring shows black lores and bib as well as brighter ...

The blue-billed curassow is the world's most threatened species of cracid, a family of beautiful crested game birds found primarily in Latin America. This large, mainly black bird is the only curassow ...