When disturbed, they flash their bulging red eyes and reveal their huge, webbed orange feet and bright blue-and-yellow flanks. This technique, called startle coloration, may give a bird or snake ...

The dark plumage makes the bright orange-red beak with a yellowish tip even more distinctive. It also happens to match the bird’s eye perfectly! Along its red beak, the bird has a faded flesh ...

Red-footed boobies use these attributes to plunge-dive and capture fish that they spot from above with their sharp eyes. At night ... Once in the water, the birds use their webbed feet to aid ...

I love the symmetry of our sightings! The reason this bird caught their eye was because it is, I think, one of the coolest-looking water ducks around; a red-breasted merganser. Maybe because my ...