Once in the water, the birds use their webbed feet to aid swimming. Red-footed boobies appear in a variety of color morphs but, of course, all have feet of the distinctive red color which gives ...

but all were water birds, including three Western grebes, one great egret, a sora and a red-necked phalarope. This little guy is a sora, described on Allaboutbirds.com (where I got the picture) as a ...