๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Red-footed Booby live?

Sula sula has 72,775 records in 126 countries and territories, from 1819 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Red-footed Booby
Red-footed Booby โ€” Gregg Yan / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesSuliformesSulidaeSula

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 28,358
Ecuador 6,605
French Polynesia 4,355
Australia 3,465
Costa Rica 3,021
Mexico 2,118
Christmas Island 1,845
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,828
Trinidad & Tobago 1,570
Fiji 1,088
Indonesia 1,055
Belize 1,032
New Caledonia 960
Northern Mariana Islands 926
Brazil 719
Cayman Islands 647
Wallis & Futuna 621
Seychelles 553
Japan 510
St Vincent & the Grenadines 498
Papua New Guinea 410
Cabo Verde 406
Cocos Islands 386
Panama 374
ZZ 370
Spain 344
British Indian Ocean Territory 311
Colombia 309
Tonga 301
Kiribati 297
American Samoa 273
Puerto Rico 263
Portugal 262
Taiwan 258
Micronesia 216
Saint Helena 215
United Kingdom 213
French Southern Territories 213
Venezuela 205
Guatemala 184

Showing the top 40 of 126 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.