Frigatebird Flight
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Frigatebird Flight
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
I love photographing birds in flight. This male Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) circled above our boat on a trip through the mangroves at Rio Lagartos, Mexico.
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.
Magnificent Frigatebirds soar along the coast in the southern United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean staying near water.
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May 18th, 2015
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