Magnificent frigatebirds

Where there are boobies feeding, there is often a frigatebird soaring above, waiting to relieve the booby of its catch.  A kleptoparasite, the frigatebird doesn’t like to get wet if it can avoid it, so it harasses other birds until they regurgitate their catch and the much bigger frigate catches it mid-air.  However, they are not particular who they steal from and other frigatebirds can also fall victim as you can see in a few of the images below.

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