Frigate bird
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Frigate bird

Robert Harding

Frigate birds are distinctive looking seabirds with long wings and tails, who catch their food in flight, as well as robbing from other birds. The males have a red pouch which they inflate during mating season to attract females.

Frigate Bird with red inflated pouch, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (LOOK/Robert Harding)

Frigate Bird on South Plaza Island with red inflated pouch, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

Magnificent frigate birds, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador (age fotostock/Robert Harding)

Magnificent Frigate Birds (Fregata magnificens), Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador

Adult male great frigate bird with inflated gular on North Seymour Island in the Galapagos Islands (Michael Nolan/Robert Harding)

Adult male great frigate bird (Fregata minor) with inflated gular on North Seymour Island in the Galapagos Island Group, Ecuador. Pacific Ocean. This frigate bird is a kleptoparasite - it steals food from other birds (often of the same species) on the wing

Male great frigate bird in breeding plumage on Genovesa (Tower) Island, in the Galapagos Island Archipelago (Michael Nolan/Robert Harding)

Male Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in breeding plumage (note the red gular pouch) on Genovesa (Tower) Island, in the Galapagos Island Archipelago, Ecuador. MORE INFO The great frigatebird is one of 5 closely related frigatebirds in the genera Fregata

Male great frigate bird in breeding plumage, Galapagos Island Archipelago (Michael Nolan/Robert Harding)

Male Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in breeding plumage (note the red gular pouch) on Genovesa (Tower) Island, in the Galapagos Island Archipelago, Ecuador. MORE INFO The great frigatebird is one of 5 closely related frigatebirds in the genera Fregata

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