Review and images by Birdsage; edited by bmathison1972

While HMS Beagle’s famed second voyage in the 1830s visited far more than the Galápagos Islands—from Cabo Verde (where Charles Darwin’s geological revelations convinced him of Lyellian uniformitarianism) to Argentina (where Darwin came upon the type specimens of Glyptodon and Toxodon) and from Australia (where he noted many examples […]

The Last Morning Under the Flamboyant Tree

Our last morning in Bequia unfolded like any other — doves in the grass, the mockingbird in the flamboyant, and Patches climbing the steps for her eggs.

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Prehistoric

This is a magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), likely a first-year juvenile, identifiable by its white head and breast. I just realized—I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an adult. I’ll have to go back through my photos and take a closer look.

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I had a #MagnificentFrigatebird just hovering above me in the wind for a good 2-3 minutes. Of course I was in the pool and didn't have my camera

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Sky Navigator

This is a magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens). I took this photo from a great distance at the port of a Caribbean island, likely Roatan, Honduras.

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Glide of the Frigate

Here is a magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) that I saw last year.

"Beachgoers delight in this large, black pterodactyl-like bird that soars effortlessly on tropical breezes with hardly a flap, using its deeply forked tail to steer. Watching a Magnificent Frigatebird float in the air truly is, as the name implies, magnificent. These master aerialists are also pirates of the sky, stealing food from other birds in midair. Males have a bright red pouch on the throat, which they inflate like a balloon to attract females. Females unlike most other seabirds look different than males with their white chest." - allaboutbirds.org

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Look Down

I was looking through some photos that I have of magnificent frigatebirds (Fregata magnificens) and noticed this one. It's not a great photo but what is the bird doing? Is it scratching itself while flying, or looking down at something?

You know, the photographs that I post here are not quite a vivid as the same photographs that I post at my pixel's gallery, because here, I reduce the size of the photos and usually make a slight reduction in the quality of the photos to make them easier to load.

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