Great frigatebird
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The great frigatebird is a large seabird in the frigatebird family. There are major nesting populations in the tropical Pacific Ocean, such as Hawaii and the Galápagos Islands; in the Indian Ocean, co
Male greater frigate bird displaying
Male, showing feathers on gular sac
Chick, Genovesa Island, Ecuador
An immature great frigatebird performing a surface snatch on a sooty tern chick dropped by another bird
Sooty tern
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The sooty tern is a tern in the family Laridae. It is a seabird of the tropical oceans and can fly for years at a time, skimming the sea surface for food, and returning to land only to breed, on islan
Great frigatebird
…usually incapable of taking off should they accidentally do so. They are often seen foraging in large, mixed-species flocks, especially flocking with sooty terns and wedge-tailed shearwaters. Great frigatebirds will also hunt seabird chicks at their breeding colonies, taking mostly the chicks of sooty terns…
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O. f. fuscatus on Ascension Island
O. f. oahuensis on Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii
O. f. nubilosus, Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean