tehag
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Magnificent frigatebird. Over salt water they are very skillful at minimizing their contact with the surface, harvesting baitfish with an almost
dainty little pickup using just the tip of their bill. In fresh water they splash around like kids in a pool. It is believed that they are ridding
themselves of salt buildup and other foreign stuff that has attached to their feathers. They plow into the water with some force and then rise with
difficulty back into the air, where they shake violently before circling back to do it again.
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Bob H
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Well done~ great series!
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Ken Bondy
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Spectacular tehag!!! I had heard that they never touch the water, they get all their food by stealing it from other birds in the air. Your photos
sure disprove that  Where were these taken?
carpe diem!
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Skipjack Joe
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What a marvelous set of wings they have.
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DianaT
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Not only are these magnificent photos, the information about this bird is really interesting. THANKS
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A dear friend told me if you can't see an obvious red pouch on a Frigate, you call tell a male from a female from a distance cuz a girl will be
wearing a white bra like the girl in tehag's pictures.
(Never know then you'll need some trivia...)
They're called Magnificent but I really hate the shrieks of pain from the poor little terns when Frigates harass them to drop their fish. Sometimes
there's just a lot of squawking, but many times you can tell they made contact by the painful cry. The tip of the Frigate's beak is nasty looking!
When baitfish are close to shore the sounds can go on all day. I've tried yelling "hey, leave em alone" but they don't listen.
Lots of times a Tern will cry out and I'll look up in time to see the Frigate attack, but when the Tern drops his fish the Frigate flies away like he
wasn't even interested in the fish anyway. Maybe Frigates need to practice their piracy techniques in order to survive, but I think some of them are
just bullies.
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Ken Bondy
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Breeding pair:
carpe diem!
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Natalie Ann
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Truly outstanding pix, tehag and Ken. Thank you so much!
nena
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excellent tehag!
I think that the deal is that their wings cannot get in the water because of their size.
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tehag
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Fresh water
Ken, they are bathing in a small body of fresh water near Loreto.
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