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The frigatebird (or pirate bird) is a sea bird that usually lives in warm, tropical regions. The “pirate bird” has an enormous wingspan and most frigatebirds are 2 meters in length. Some distinctive features of the frigatebird are their large wingspan and an enlarged red throat (male only). They mostly live near in tropical islands found in the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. Frigatebirds have a diet, which consists of marine animals.

Frigatebirds tend to have a meat-based carvinorous diet. They eat many types of fish such as flying fish, crustaceans, mulluscs and small sea turtles. Some of the main predators of the frigatebird are humans, rats, stoats, and some cats. While mating, the female frigatebirds only tend to lay one egg every couple

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