Frigate Bird Gallery

Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor ridgwayi) female, harrassing blue-footed booby for food - kleptoparasitism

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Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor ridgwayi) female, harrassing blue-footed booby for food - kleptoparasitism
Galapagos, Ecuador
Fregata minor ridgwayi
Bob Gibbons
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Great Frigatebird adult female - with wings outstretched

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Great Frigatebird adult female - with wings outstretched
At Pulu Keeling National Park, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean
Fregata minor
Pulu Keeling is Australia's smallest and most western National Park.
Don Hadden
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Red-shouldered Hawk - Adult bird with typical paler plumage of southern Red-shoulders - in flight

RES-870-C
Montagu's Harrier - food pass in flight
Extremadura - Spain - April
Circus pygargus
sequence 4 of 5 - The male (grey bird) has dropped the food (in this case a bird) to the female below - Whilst the female is looking after their chicks the male will catch the food and she will fly up towards him to recieve it as he drops it to her - The complete food pass lasted no more than a couple of seconds
George Reszeter
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