Researchers placed satellite trackers on some great frigate birds in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Named after a kind of fast warship, frigates (Fregata minor) travel an average of 255 miles daily for days or months on end, often. It may even take little naps when it’s caught in those updrafts. The great frigate bird is the Energizer Bunny of migratory birds. It doesn’t have to flap its wings much to fly - it catches updrafts that carry it aloft, then glides for hours at a time. The frigate bird has the highest ratio of wing area to body weight of any bird - and that’s one of the keys to its ability to remain in the air for so long. And if they can’t catch anything in the water, they have a nasty habit of chasing other birds until they drop their prey - or throw it up - and then catching their ill-gotten prize in mid-air. They almost never alight on the water because they can’t swim.
The birds feed mainly by skimming just above the water and catching small fish that have been chased to the surface by predators. For example, by creating camera entities in Home Assistant, one can then connect with the Google Assistant integration to expose Frigate camera streams, enabling 'Hey Google, show me the front yard camera on the TV'. Like a brightly glowing neon sign that says Fish Here, large knots of frigates signal the presence of baitballs and sailfish below. The largest of the five species - the magnificent frigate bird ¬¬- can be more than three feet long, with a wingspan of up to seven feet. It would be nice to see the birdseye view as its own output stream. Frigate birds also play an important role in the Atlantic, especially in the winter sailfish fishery off Isla Mujeres, Mexico. One flew continuously for 48 days, averaging 420 km per day. Some adults tracked in the study launched multiday treks, circumnavigating the doldrums (see the figure). And one species can remain in the sky for up to two months.įrigate birds are large seabirds found in tropical regions across the globe. After breeding on an islet in the Mozambique Channel, adult frigate birds fly north to the Seychelles and forage from there for months. It stays aloft for days or weeks at a time. Most birds are creatures more of the land or sea than of the air - they spend far more time on the surface than in the sky.
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