- and
Christmas Island frigatebirds, and the
magnificent and
Ascension frigatebirds,
while the
fifth species, the
lesser frigatebird, is an
early offshoot...
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approximate two-thousand
magnificent frigatebirds that nest on the Galápagos Islands.
Magnificent frigatebirds are
currently classified as of
Least Concern...
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Great frigatebirds will make use of
schools of
predatory tuna or pods of
dolphins that push
schooling fish to the surface. Like all
frigatebirds they will...
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female is
slightly larger than the male and has a
white breast and belly.
Frigatebirds feed on fish
taken in
flight from the ocean's
surface (often
flying fish)...
- main
nesting colonies. In 2003
there were 1,200
breeding pairs but as
frigatebirds normally breed every other year, the
total adult po****tion was estimated...
-
Ascension frigatebird po****tion on the
islet of
Boatswain conducted in 2001–2002
recorded around 6,250
breeding females. As
female frigatebirds normally...
- signalling,
since the
colors become more
pronounced in
breeding adults. In
frigatebirds, the
gular skin (or
gular sac or
throat sac) is used dramatically. During...
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cormorants and shags, with the
gannets and boobies, then pelicans, then
frigatebirds and
lastly tropicbirds as
progressively earlier offshoots. Cladogram...
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seize tropicbirds by
their long tail plumes. The name
frigatebird, as well as many of the
frigatebirds'
colloquial names,
including man-o'-war bird and pirate...
- of any species' diet; a
study of
great frigatebirds stealing from
masked boobies estimated that the
frigatebirds stole at most 40% of
their food and on...
