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The Blue-footed Booby was the most commonly sighted bird in the Galapgos Islands.

The coolest thing about them, besides their brightly-colored feet and their goofy mating dances, was their technique
for feeding. They fly about 80 feet above the ocean, and when they spot a fish in the sea they suddenly slow and dive
bomb straight into the water, piercing the surface with a sound like missile piercing cellophane. Then, a couple seconds
later, the booby pops back up to the surface, bobbing up and down on the surface as if nothing had happened.