Blue-footed booby ducks, the jewel of Santa María Bay, in Angostura

Angostura, Sinaloa.- The squawk can be heard in the distance, it is a sign that the boat is arriving at the Island of the goofy ducksthe island they have taken as their own home.

It is October, the winter weather in this area of ​​the Pacific is conducive to the arrival of the first flocks of this type of bird, which prevail in this area until the Easter holiday period.

The booby ducks or blue feet They only live in three places in the world, and they are the coasts of Peru, on the Galapagos Island and the Santa Maria Bay, in the municipality of Angostura; It is in this period that this bird chooses for procreation.

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The route of the ducks’ journey begins when the cold begins to be felt in the north of Sinaloa, and their arrival is to fulfill the promise of mating when they arrive on the island they have taken as their own, so much so that fishermen and visitors They already know the island as that of the bobo ducks or blue feet. The male of the species performs the mating process, so he uses his legs as one of his main attractions to perform a dance, a ritual to attract the attention of the female, they are the ones who choose the males that have the legs with the brightest colors.

The intense blue color of its legs is one of its main characteristics, and this pigmentation comes from the carotenoids that come from its diet.

The islands of the Santa María bay, a unique and natural landscape, have approximately 80 kilometers of coastline that run through the lagoon systems, the island and the bay of Playa Colorada, the islands with the greatest knowledge of the population of Évora are El Médano Blanco , El Perihuete, El Guadarón, Bellavista, and among those that are little visited and that are in their natural state is the Isla del Amor, La Guásima and La Isla del Rancho, spaces whose beauty is within reach of the hand of your visitors.

The eggs are laid on the warm sands of the Isla de los Patos Bobos or Patas Azules and from that moment the female sits on top of them and does not get up until the chicks begin to break the shell, that is why they are prey easy for predators such as the coyote and humans themselves, who moved by the taste of this product come to steal the eggs for consumption.

According to fishermen in the area, they assure that there are few birds that move from the place because it travels very little, and there is information that since they arrived on this island they have moved little, only after Week Santa embark on a journey that few know where.

Since they took this island as their own, they assure that they have not moved in years, however, the fact is that the change in climate from winter to spring is when the dance begins to search for a mate and start reproducing.

José Luis García commented that there is an average of 3,500 to 4,000 ducks in a family and that there is variety, however, that island has been taken over by blue-footed ducks.
Their nesting and the beauty of these ducks are one of the attractions of the place, which remains in its natural state. Different projects have been started for the rescue and tourist promotion of these natural spaces, however, none of them has materialized.

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Recently, the mayor and the council members toured the areas of the Santa María bay in order to give impetus and protection to this area, for which reason the construction of ecological hotels was thought to allow these natural spaces to be maintained.