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- noun Plural form of
frigatebird .
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Even the smallest, uninhabitable islands are significant as breeding sites for large numbers of seabirds such as frigatebirds, tropicbirds, boobies, terns, and smaller species.
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The three islets to the east are part of a national ornithological reserve; there are more sea birds here, including puffins and frigatebirds, than anywhere else in the Lesser Antilles.
Take Monday Off: Martinique Chris Nuttall-Smith 2011
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The refuge is an important area for magnificent frigatebirds, and marsh birds such as the mottled duck, clapper rail, black rail and seaside sparrow.
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The refuge is an important area for magnificent frigatebirds, and marsh birds such as the mottled duck, clapper rail, black rail and seaside sparrow.
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Some of the non-endemic birds include the boobies, storm petrels, frigatebirds, and terns.
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Instead of catching their own fish, frigatebirds often steal a catch from other seabirds.
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Do certain birds (frigatebirds, swifts and migrating passerines among them) really sleep on the wing?
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Species and sex-biased predation on hatchling green turtles by frigatebirds on Europa Island, western Indian Ocean.
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Le Corre suggests that the occurrence of the white-tailed brown morph at Europa may act as a defensive camouflage against kleptoparasitism (a behavior of stealing another bird's catch) by great frigatebirds (Fregata minor) and brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica).
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So there I was once more, writing under the Barringtonia trees again, lifting my head to see the frigatebirds drifting overhead, or waiting for the sun to set, gin and tonic in hand...
Archive 2007-02-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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