Detail View: Image Archives: Blue-faced Booby and chick

File Name: 
0095-1456.jpg
catalog number: 
0095-1456.N
collection: 
Birds
title: 
Blue-faced Booby and chick
creator: 
Alfred M. Bailey; Ed N. Harrison; R.J. Niedrach
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Christine Powers
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Blue-faced Booby with fluffy chick on San Benedicto Island (Isla San Benedicto) of the Revillagigedo Island group off the Baja peninsula's Pacific coast during the cruise of the Kinkajou. Also called masked Booby, the adults are white with pointed black wings, a pointed black tail and dark grey face mask. During the breeding season they hav a patch of bluish skin at the base of the bill.
date: 
4/20/1940
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
Mexico, San Benedicto Island
modified: 
yes, color corrected using Photoshop CS4
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
3.71 MB
source: 
2.5 x 2.0 nitrate negative scanned with Epson Expression 10000X at 1200 dpi
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature and Science