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Blue-footed Booby causes a flutter in LA (PHOTOS)
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Sep 17, 2013
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Blue-footed Booby causes a flutter in LA (PHOTOS)
An unusually high number of Blue-footed Boobies have been spotted in LA County recently, giving local bird watchers a chance to see a uncommon species close to home.
An adult Blue-footed Booby photographed on Santa Cruz, Galapagos in Ecuador.
An adult Blue-footed Booby photographed on Santa Cruz, Galapagos in Ecuador.
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A pair of Blue-footed Boobies photographed on Española, Galapagos, Ecuador.
A pair of Blue-footed Boobies photographed on Española, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Blue-footed Boobies in flight.
Blue-footed Boobies in flight.
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putneymark via flickr Creative Commons
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The bright blue feet of the adult Blue-footed Booby.
The bright blue feet of the adult Blue-footed Booby.
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putneymark via flickr Creative Commons
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Kimball Garrett shows some stuffed Blue-footed Boobies from the LA County Natural History Museum's ornithology collection.
Kimball Garrett shows some stuffed Blue-footed Boobies from the LA County Natural History Museum's ornithology collection.
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Biologist Dan Cooper stands with his telescope in Malibu near the spot where he spotted a Blue-footed Booby.
Biologist Dan Cooper stands with his telescope in Malibu near the spot where he spotted a Blue-footed Booby.
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Sanden Totten/KPCC
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An unusually high number of Blue-footed Boobies have been spotted in LA County recently, giving local bird watchers a chance to see a uncommon species close to home.

Celebrity sightings are no big deal in Los Angeles. Unless that celebrity is a bird. A warm water species called the blue-footed booby, is being spotted all over Los Angeles County.

The bird is usually found farther south, off the coast of Mexico or near the Galapagos Islands. This rare chance to see the famed creature here has inspired hundreds of bird enthusiasts to set out, binoculars in hand. KPCC's Sanden Totten joined them.