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Fregata minor (Great Frigatebird)

Synonyms: Pelecanus minor
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The great frigatebird (Fregata minor) is a large seabird in the frigatebird family. Major nesting populations are found in the Pacific (including the Galapagos Islands) and Indian Oceans, as well as a population in the South Atlantic.
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Infraspecies

Fregata minor aldabrensis
Fregata minor minor
Fregata minor nicolli
Fregata minor palmerstoni
Fregata minor ridgwayi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
11
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
38
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 23.3912
EDGE Score: 3.19422
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Attributes

Clutch Size [6]  1
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Egg Length [2]  2.638 inches (67 mm)
Egg Width [2]  1.85 inches (47 mm)
Fledging [2]  5 months 25 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  120,000
Incubation [6]  56 days
Mating Display [4]  Ground display
Mating System [4]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [6]  43 years
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic
Wing Span [8]  7.15 feet (2.18 m)
Adult Weight [2]  2.928 lbs (1.328 kg)
Birth Weight [4]  74 grams
Female Weight [7]  2.608 lbs (1.183 kg)
Male Weight [7]  2.044 lbs (927 g)
Weight Dimorphism [7]  27.6 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [3]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [3]  Pelagic
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [5]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [5]  10 %
Diet - Vertibrates [5]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  80 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  20 %
Female Maturity [6]  5 years
Male Maturity [6]  5 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands France Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Cocos Island moist forests Costa Rica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    
Galápagos Islands scrubland mosaic Ecuador Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Islas Revillagigedo dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests    
Trindade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Aldabra atoll Seychelles A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii  
Christmas Island Christmas Island (to Australia) A1, A4ii, A4iii  
Pulau Manuk Indonesia A4i, A4ii, A4iii    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Emblem of

Nauru

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Sula sula (Red-footed Booby)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Colpocephalum angulaticeps[11]
Pectinopygus gracilicornis[11]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 7Schreiber, EA and RW Schreiber 1988. Great Frigatebird size dimorphism on two central Pacific atolls. Condor 90: 90-99
♦ 8Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Schreiber, RW and DA Hensley. 1976. The diets of Sula dactylatra, Sula sula, and Fregata minor on Christmas Island, Pacific Ocean Pacific Sci. 30:241–248
♦ 11Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0