Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Suliformes > Fregatidae > Fregata > Fregata arielFregata ariel (Lesser Frigatebird)Synonyms: Atagen ariel The lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae. At around 75 cm (30 in) in length, it is the smallest species of frigatebird. It occurs over tropical and subtropical waters across the Indian and Pacific Oceans as well as off the Atlantic coast of Brazil. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 22.4159 EDGE Score: 3.15341 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 1.777 lbs (806 g) | | Birth Weight [2] | 66 grams | | Female Weight [4] | 1.892 lbs (858 g) | | Male Weight [4] | 1.662 lbs (754 g) | | Weight Dimorphism [4] | 13.8 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore | | Diet - Endothermic [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Fish [3] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 40 % | | Diet - Scavenger [3] | 10 % | | Forages - Water Surface [3] | 80 % | | Forages - Underwater [3] | 20 % | | | Clutch Size [2] | 1 | | Clutches / Year [1] | 1 | | Egg Length [1] | 2.52 inches (64 mm) | | Egg Width [1] | 1.732 inches (44 mm) | | Fledging [1] | 4 months 20 days | | Incubation [1] | 45 days | | Mating Display [2] | Ground display (mostly) | | Mating System [2] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [5] | 28 years |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Adele Island |
Australia |
A4i, A4ii |
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Aldabra atoll |
Seychelles |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Europa |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Mantanani islands |
Malaysia |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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North Keeling Island |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (to Australia) |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Pulau Manuk |
Indonesia |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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East Melanesian Islands |
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu |
No |
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Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands |
Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles |
No |
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New Caledonia |
New Caledonia |
No |
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Polynesia-Micronesia |
Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States |
No |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
No |
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Wallacea |
East Timor, Indonesia |
No |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan 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 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish 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 ♦ 4Diamond, AW 1975. Biology and behaviour of frigatebirds Fregata spp. on Aldabra Atoll. Ibis 117: 302-323 ♦ 5de 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 ♦ 6Species 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 |
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
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