Have you ever seen a large, black bird with a forked tail that looks prehistoric soaring above the beach? Those are magnificent frigatebirds, and they are indeed magnificent. They are a long-winged ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Fregata minor [Great Frigatebird] 18 days old, on Christmas Island [Kiritimati], Kiribati, 1967. The chick was photographed to document its ...

Frigatebirds are amazing seabirds, known for their very special flying ability and different characteristics. Having a spread of up to 2.3 meters in wingspan, they are really designed to travel long ...

The great frigatebird is, well, pretty great. "They have these big wing spans and a relatively light body so they can soar up into the atmosphere and spend months and days aloft. It's a really ...

FIRST PHOTO: A flock of iwa, or great frigatebirds, spirals above a Wailea Emerald Golf Course pond Wednesday morning, while taking turns drifting down to scoop drinks of water without stopping. The ...

A bloody petrel, a feasting cormorant and a frigatebird silhouetted against a solar eclipse among this year’s winning images.

The Condor, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 162-168 (7 pages) We investigated the importance of kleptoparasitism in a population of Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula) sympatric with frigatebirds (Great ...

Volunteers participating in Saturday’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Ocean Count stood side by side with tourists at the Lanai Lookout to observe and log whale behavior.