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[Frigatebirds] Great Frigatebird (probable)

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1^# A A A Post at 25/04/2010 18:19 Show author

Great Frigatebird (probable)

South of HK Waters
25th April, 2010

Please correct us if id is wrong...but we are more than happy if this is an Christmas Island Frigatebird!!! hehe...
Same place as last record of Great Frigatebird seen on 27th April 08, just 2 days difference.

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2^# A A A Post at 25/04/2010 18:23 Show author

Good shots , Peter Gou~

I am just an inexperienced birder/ birdwatcher/ twitcher/ photographer with no long lens.

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3^# A A A Post at 25/04/2010 21:11 Show author

Jolly Good Boating Weather

A couple of shots from us

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4^# A A A Post at 26/04/2010 14:47 Show author

A great find!

What are the criteria for separating Christmas Island Frigatebird from Great?

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5^# A A A Post at 26/04/2010 16:38 Show author

Shooting the Frigatebird under rocky condition!

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6^# A A A Post at 26/04/2010 17:03 Show author

Mike,

That's easy! Which have I seen before and which not ?!

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7^# A A A Post at 26/04/2010 22:42 Show author

Would anyone kindly explain why this is not a Lesser Frigatebird?

Can it be a second year Lesser Frigatebird?

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8^# A A A Post at 26/04/2010 23:11 Show author

I - who saw the bird - have had very little time to check sources, but I've got one or two that suggest that black extending up the belly can only indicate Lesser.

I've never seen a frigatebird in this moult condition and maybe that is giving it the unusual, rangey, angular proportions it seemed to have, which seemed wrong for Lesser at the time

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9^# A A A Post at 26/04/2010 23:57 Show author

Mike,
Thank you very much for your reply.

More photos of this frigatebird for sharing

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10^# A A A Post at 27/04/2010 06:09 Show author

Frigatebird

On "Oriental Bird Images" THIS is labelled as a Lesser, and looks quite similar to the one near Lamma on 25th April 2010

http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1

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11^# A A A Post at 27/04/2010 09:16 Show author

The image of a juvenile Lesser Frigatebird in Harrison's seabirds also looks a good match - Mike T's comments about the extent of black on the belly, and the shape of the spurs seems to point in that direction.

Geoff, since I didn't see it makes no difference whatever which one it turns out to be!

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12^# A A A Post at 30/04/2010 04:23 Show author

I saw this bird from the Stanley to Po Toi Ferry at about 3.45pm last Sunday.

Here are three photos from the other side of the world.

It looked pretty big to me, so under the Geoff Carey rules for identification, I'll go for Greater Frigatebird

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