The South Pacific’s frigate birds have not the high standards of U.S. postmen through storm and sleet and snow and dark of night. But, in their slapdash way, the frigate birds do pretty well. For ...

That was something Capt. Chris Donato and I used to yell at each other as an exaggerated impression of a fired-up charter guest whenever we’d see birds while trolling off the Kona coast. Even if you ...

The great frigatebird is, well, pretty great. "They have these big wing spans and a relatively light body so they can soar up into the atmosphere and spend months and days aloft. It's a really ...

Frigate bird is shown at dusk. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 1, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Weimerskirch at CNRS in Villiers en Bois, France ...

COCOA BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) — A rare magnificent frigatebird found itself in dire straits after a powerful storm knocked it out of the sky while it was flying over the ocean. The bird, not typically ...

Researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight without colliding with obstacles or falling from the sky. Measuring the brain activity of frigate birds, the researchers found that they ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Frigate birds flying around Rocky ...

This file photo shows a frigate bird with a 7-foot wingspan soar overhead in the sky. When a storm blows in, it doesn't just impact people — it can also throw birds off course or drive them farther ...

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