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Magnificent Frigate Bird
Frigate bird, also known as man-o'- war bird, any individual from five types of huge seabirds establishing the family Fregatidae (order Pelecaniformes or Suliformes). Frigate birds are about the size of a chicken and have very long, thin wings, the range of which may reach to about 2.3 meters (almost 8 feet), and a long, profoundly forked tail. All in all, grown-up males are for the most part dark, and grown-up females are set apart with white beneath.
Birds of the Wind, People of the Wind
Shrouded in mystery, frigatebirds are highly honored in Nauru and many other Pacific Islands. They belong to the supernatural realm. They represent a link between the visible and the invisible worlds and a channel for communication with the spirits. In several languages of Oceania, the translation of frigate is "bird of the wind". Frigates are inextricably linked to the wind, a force seen as a pre-Christian God the of whom is not entirely abolished.The Polynesians have an extraordinary admiration for frigatebirds, for like "people of the sea" they love challenges, risks and freedom.
Birds of the Atlantic Ocean
"The birds depicted and described run the full gamut of the species of Atlantic Ocean birds, from penguins, albatrosses, petrels, tropic birds, and pelicans to cormorants, frigate birds, phalaropes, skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers, and auks. Author Ted Stokes, the well-known ocean-bird enthusiast, has arranged the presentation of hte birds in correct scientific sequence, giving the order, family...and species, along with the names by which each is most commonly known...then discusses at length the individual species, indicating the character of each and giving the wing span, the number and color of its eggs, its nesting habits, its known breeding range and the probable limits of its nonbreeding range (with the help of maps), and other points of particular interest." --Dust jacket.
Islands of the Frigate Bird
Islands of the Frigate Bird is the magnificent saga of the people of the central Pacific--people who have battled every type of political, commercial, and cultural onslaught from outsiders in order to retain their identity.
Frigate Birds
A young New Zealand nursing student is lunching in her college café in 1974 when an unknown 'Black man with a halo of corkscrew curls' sits uninvited next to her. Within a year, she marries the stranger in a traditional Solomon Islands' ceremony near the beach on which he was born, midway through his mother's four-hour walk to the clinic.Naked children and bare-breasted women greet the couple's arrival by canoe. She is the sole European at her wedding. Her only present is a shell. She discovers their home is a fibreboard house perched on stilts in a sea of mud on a muddy road. They bathe in a stream and fetch water from the river. The sea is the toilet. For most of the next forty years, thi...
Learn about the Frigate Bird
This educational bird book for kids presents facts along with full color photographs and carefully chosen words to teach children about the Frigate Bird. Packed with facts about the Frigate Bird, your children or grandchildren will enjoy learning from start to finish while they read this bird books for kids. This bird book kids was a pleasure to write, and knowing that children learn from it made it all worthwhile! If you want to learn about the Frigate Bird, you will enjoy this kids bird book. Learn many interesting facts and see some beautiful photographs of the Frigate Birds. The gorgeous photographs will keep your child engaged from beginning to end. Included in the paperback version are some coloring pages for your child! Note: This book is suitable for children 5 years or age and older, although younger children will enjoy it if you share it with them. Grab your copy NOW by clicking the buy button at the top right of the page.
Ocean Wanderers
Comprehensive account, including many Arctic and Antarctic species.
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Plataleæ (ibises and spoonbills) and Herodiones (herons and storks) by R.B. Sharpe. Steganopodes (cormorants, gannets, frigate-birds, tropic-birds, and pelicans) Pygopodes (divers and grebes) Alcæ (auks) and Impennes (penguins) by W.R. Ogilvie-Grant. 1898
This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Museum added eagerly to their already vast collections during the decades of publication, acquiring by gift the great collections of A.O. Hume on Asian birds, and those of Sclater and Salvin and Godwin on Neotropical birds, so that the size of the collection nearly tripled between 1874 and 1888. Sharpe originally intended to do all the work himself, but others were called in when this became clearly impossible. The plates are all of birds not previously illustrated. In the decades following its publication this catalogue was universally acclaimed as the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published. (Zimmer, p. 96). And even after one hundred years it remains an essential reference for the serious ornithologist, as it underpins a great deal of modern bird classification. With 387 plates, most hand-coloured lithographs, some chromolithographs, by William Hart, J.G. Keulemans, Joseph and Peter Smit.
Seabirds
Grade 5.1; Points 0.5.
