Frigatebirds Gallery

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ECUADOR Galapagos Tower Island Male and female Great Frigate Birds Fregata.The males have inflatable red coloured throat pouches which they inflate to attract females during the mating season.The females have a white underbelly

© Nigel Sitwell eye ubiquitous / hutchison

Birds, South America

Great frigatebird, Fregata minor nicolli

Bird specimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological and zoological specimens. This is one of a small series of bird specimens that were collected in July 1910 when the expedition stopped at South Trinidad. Date: 1910

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

Red phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, and sungrebe

Ascension frigatebird, Fregata aquila (vulnerable), and great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans