ABOUT THIS SPECIES
MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD – (Species Account Weblog #75)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Suliformes,
- FAMILY: Fregatidae,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Fregata magnificens
The Magnificent Frigatebird is a large seabird of heat tropical oceans and coastlines. General black with extraordinarily lengthy, deeply forked tail and angular wings. Male fully black with inflatable purple pouch on throat (not seen away from breeding colonies) and bluish eyering. In good gentle, black coloration can present purplish sheen. Grownup feminine has white chest and golden bar on shoulder. Younger birds have white head and breast. Typically soars for lengthy intervals and flies with sluggish wingbeats. Steals meals from different seabirds. (from Birds of the World)
DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Magnificent Frigatebirds flying alongside and never far inland from the coast from Punta Leona to the Estero Mata de Limón to the north.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Picture Gallery pictures (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.
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