[Leica] Frigate Birds

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nathan,
Thanks for looking.

That red gular sac is the male's breeding plumage!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:38 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Outstanding, especially the first juvenile and the adult with the orange
> sack.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 3 Jan 2019, at 15:47, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
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> > The next installment of the fauna of the Galapagos.
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> > Frigate Birds are the pirates of the skies, adept at stealing food from
> > other birds on the wing either directly, or by harassing them till they
> > regurgitate food that they are bringing back to the next. The only
> Frigate
> > Bird breeding grounds that we saw was on North Seymour Island, though
> they
> > are in the skies pretty much anywhere. The two sub species that breed
> here
> > are the Magnificent Frigatebird and the Great Frigatebird, and are quite
> > tough to tell apart. I have attempted to do so, but could be
> > comprehensively wrong in the identification. So, bear with me on that
> one!
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> > Juveniles:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-3030.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-2714.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-3134.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-3194.jpg.html
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> > Adults:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-3151.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181125-3224.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181130-7006.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181130-6693.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181130-7016.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/Galapagos/Galapagos-20181130-6874.jpg.html
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> > Please see LARGE
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> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
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> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
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