Where can you see the Blue-footed Booby?
Some of the best places to see the Blue-footed Booby in the wild include Darién National Park (Panama), Parque Nacional de Galápagos (Ecuador) and Corcovado National Park (Costa Rica) — among 16 wildlife hotspots across Costa Rica, the United States, Panama, Mexico and Ecuador. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Channel Islands National Park
Santa Barbara County, United States
+330 birds+15 mammals
A chain of eight volcanic islands rises from the cold Pacific waters off the California coast, their rugged sea cliffs and windswept terrain shaped by millions…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCoiba National Park
Montijo, Panama
+260 birds+10 mammals
An archipelago of volcanic and sedimentary islands rises from the Pacific waters off Panama's southwestern coast, its densest rainforest canopy unbroken for millennia. Coiba National Park…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCorcovado National Park
Puerto Jiménez, Costa Rica
+444 birds+48 mammals
Where the Osa Peninsula juts into the Pacific, rainforest descends almost to the tide line, and Corcovado National Park protects one of Central America's most intact…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKDarién National Park
Tucutí, Panama
+534 birds+13 mammals
Where the spine of Central America crumbles into wetland and rainforest, Darién National Park sprawls across more than 20,000 square kilometres of some of the tropics'…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKEl Vizcaíno
Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico
+317 birds+29 mammals
Where the Baja California peninsula thins into a tapestry of salt lagoons and coastal desert, one of Mexico's most biodiverse reserves sprawls across half a million…
VIEW BIOSPHERE RESERVEFarallon National Wildlife Refuge
San Francisco, United States
+384 birds+16 mammals
Windswept granite peaks rising abruptly from the Pacific, the Farallon Islands form a wildlife sanctuary of extraordinary seabird abundance and ecological significance just twenty-seven miles west…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYHavasu National Wildlife Refuge
Lake Havasu City, United States
+291 birds+8 mammals
Where the Colorado River widens into a vast reservoir in the Sonoran Desert, Havasu National Wildlife Sanctuary protects one of the most critical wetland ecosystems in…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYManuel Antonio National Park
Quepos, Costa Rica
+426 birds+22 mammals
Where tropical rainforest descends steeply to a rocky Pacific coastline, Manuel Antonio National Park distills Central American biodiversity into one of Costa Rica's most compressed and…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMarino Ballena National Park
Bahía Ballena, Costa Rica
+336 birds+8 mammals
Where mangrove forests meet coral-fringed shorelines along Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast, Marino Ballena National Park encompasses a marine and terrestrial mosaic that ranks among Central…
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