Frigatebirds

Order: Pelecaniformes

Family: Fregatidae

5 species

HABITAT AND RANGE:

tropical oceans worldwide;

DESCRIPTION:

75-110 cm long; wingspan to over 2 m; gular region unfeathered, expanded and colorful in breeding males; plumage largely black or dark brown; females larger; bill long and strongly hooked; nostrils absent; wings very long, narrow and pointed; lightest wing-loading of any sp.; middle claw pectinate; feet webbed basally;

FOOD:

feed on flying fish and other surface prey from the wing or kleptoparasitize other birds;

BREEDING:

colonial; single egg

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