Frigatebird: The Pirate Bird Of The Sky
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Frigatebirds are known as "pirate birds" because of their habit of stealing food from other birds in mid-air
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They are large seabirds with long, angular wings and a deeply forked tail
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Frigatebirds are master aerialists that can soar effortlessly on tropical breezes with hardly a flap
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They use their wings to glide on thermals for days at a time
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Frigatebirds skim fish from the surface of the water or chase other birds, forcing them to give up their recent meal
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Males are mostly black with a purplish sheen on upper body feathers and a large red gular (throat pouch). Females have a white chest and a dark head
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Frigatebirds soar over tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the Americas. They nest in low-growing scrub vegetation on islands
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Frigatebirds have the largest wingspan to body weight ratio of any bird in the world
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