Frigate Bird Rookery

I mentioned a few days ago how Brenda and I drifted alongside a rookery of Frigate Birds.  They seemed totally unconcerned with our presence and no wonder, given that we observed 2 or 3 visits to the rookery per day by boats loaded with tourists.  Here are some of the photographs that we took.  If you enlarge them and pan around you'll see bird nests, courting males with their bright red throat pouches, young chicks in their fluffy white down, and the poses of the various members of the colony in their quiet and gentle daily life.

Breeding male birds are black with a red throat pouch which is not very red or visible when it is not inflated, females are black but have a white breast, nestlings have dark wings with a white head and breast. Frigate birds have the longest wings of any bird, in proportion to their body weight.