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title: "Głuptak czerwononogi"
description: "Sula sula — Ptaki. The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/red-footed-booby
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Głuptak czerwononogi

> Sula sula — Ptaki. The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae.

- Scientific name: *Sula sula*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 7580
- Wikidata: [Q217122](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217122)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3793](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3793)

## Names

- en: Red-footed Booby
- de: Rotfußtölpel
- es: Bobo Patas Rojas
- fr: Fou à pieds rouges
- nl: Roodpootgent
- pt: Atobá-de-pé-vermelho
- pl: Głuptak czerwononogi

## Countries with the most observations

US (2410), EC (1407), PF (205), MX (191), CX (181), BR (156), SC (133), BZ (131), TF (100), UM (100), AU (70), KY (64)

## Summary

The red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. Adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, harnessing the wind to fly efficiently, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings. They forage by catching flying fish from above the ocean's surface and by performing shallow dives. They are found widely in the tropics, and breed colonially in coastal regions, especially isolated islands such as St. Brandon, Mauritius (Cargados Carajos shoals), and the Chagos Archipelago. Although its population is declining, it is considered to…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-footed_booby

## Photo

![Głuptak czerwononogi](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-footed-booby/medium.jpg)

Photo: Scott Loarie · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7533380

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-footed-booby?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).