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 volcanoes and some of Asia’s busiest shipping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnificent frigate birds (Fregata magnificens) make long foraging trips far over the Atlantic Ocean. A brown-throated sloth ...

The great frigatebird is, well, pretty great. "They have these big wing spans and a relatively light body so they can soar up into the atmosphere and spend months and days aloft. It's a really ...

This file photo shows a frigate bird with a 7-foot wingspan soar overhead in the sky. When a storm blows in, it doesn't just impact people — it can also throw birds off course or drive them farther ...

An adult female frigate bird feeds its young volant at the colony. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 1, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Weimerskirch ...

The South Pacific’s frigate birds have not the high standards of U.S. postmen through storm and sleet and snow and dark of night. But, in their slapdash way, the frigate birds do pretty well. For ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without ...

Click to open image viewer. Frigate birds flying around Rocky Island in Panama Bay. Plankton collections were made near this spot attracted the birds. From 1910 to 1912, the Smithsonian participated ...