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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A frigate in flight. Some of the juveniles in the study stayed continuously aloft for more than two months. How do frigate birds—seabirds with a 7-foot wingspan—stay aloft for months at a time? Their ...

Frigatebirds, seagoing fliers with a 6-foot wingspan, can stay aloft for weeks at a time, a new study has found. The results paint an astonishing picture of the bird's life, much of which is spent ...

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 ...

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 ...