From time to time, beachgoers along Brevard and Volusia may look high in the sky and spot a very large bird with a distinctive “V” in each wing and a split tail. It’s an aerial virtuoso, the ...

Great frigate birds are extraordinary creatures. They’re seabirds with six-foot wingspans, yet they weigh only about three pounds. Their preferred food: flying fish—which they pluck out of the air ...

The frigate bird is a powerful and aggressive seabird, with a deserved reputation as the pirate of the high seas. One of world’s fastest birds, he swoops and soars up to 100 miles an hour, spending up ...

Frigate birds are truly incredible creatures. With their 6-foot wingspan, these animals can stay aloft for weeks without having to touch down the ground and rest. But exactly how frigate birds can ...

A flock of great frigate birds rides tradewinds. Frigate birds ride tradewinds, but to get even better mileage, they take advantage of clouds, formed when warm air rises. Since warm air inside clouds ...

Scientists have known for a while that many birds, including the buoyant frigate bird, can fly non-stop for weeks without having to rest on the ground. In fact, songbirds, swifts, seabirds and ...

BANGKOK, Thailand – Talk about a working mother. A Christmas Island frigate bird named Lydia recently made a nonstop journey of just over 26 days and covering nearly 2,500 miles – across Indonesian ...

FIRST PHOTO: A flock of iwa, or great frigatebirds, spirals above a Wailea Emerald Golf Course pond Wednesday morning, while taking turns drifting down to scoop drinks of water without stopping. The ...

Europeans named the birds "frigate" for their resemblance to the swift warships. They look powerful, with their forked tails and long, slender wings; the shadows they cast on the sea surface could ...

Frigate birds, which can stay aloft for months at a time, capitalize on atmospheric conditions in order to spend very little energy while flying over hundreds of miles a day, a new study shows.

A storm-tossed frigate bird rescued from a tree in Healdsburg during last weekend's rainstorm was in critical condition Tuesday at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia.

It's easy to notice magnificent frigatebirds — their large black "M-shaped" wings, long beak and long straight tails cut quite a silhouette in the sky, and the males are known for puffing out a large ...