Tag: frigatebirds

Birds

The truely Magnificent Frigatebird

May 18, 2016 by Tom Brown 2 Comments

One of the most common questions I get from first time, non-birding visitors to the Baja, is “What is the ominous looking black bird,...

Birds

Drones Appear Effective in Bird Counts

March 24, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

For all of the pros and cons that drones have, add one tick to the “pro” side of the ledger. A recent study found...

Birds

Frigatebird Food Fight in the Galapagos

March 24, 2014 by a Guest No Comments

When Adam Riley let me know he had seen some cool frigatebird photos and wondered if we wanted to run them on 10,000 Birds...

Trips

Isla Isabel – Mexico’s Galapagos

April 23, 2013 by James 4 Comments

Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. Isla Isabel, a picturesque volcanic island...

Birds

Great Frigatebird

February 5, 2012 by Clare M 6 Comments

This week we were very lucky to have the third record of a Great Frigatebird for Broome. We had seen one of the other...

Birds

Man-o-war Birds

April 27, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments

Last week I introduced the Great Frigatebird, one of five species of man-o-war bird. I got rather carried away showing all the plumages you...

Birds

The Great Pirates of the Pacific

April 20, 2011 by Duncan 7 Comments

I’ve always thought there is something prehistoric about frigatebirds, as something about their shape evokes in my mind the shape I imagine the later...

Inspiration

Walt Whitman’s “To the Man-of-War-Bird”

March 28, 2011 by Corey 3 Comments

In the final version of Walt Whitman’s famed poetry collection Leaves of Grass – the “Deathbed Edition” – there is a poem dedicated to the Magnificent...

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