First Record of Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Authors

Matthias D. Dehling, Monash UniversityFollow

Abstract

The Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel is widespread in the western and central tropical Pacific, where it breeds from Raine Island, Australia, in the west to the Tuamotu Archipelago in the east (Marchant & Higgins, 1990). The non-breeding range is larger, extending northwest to Japan and rarely Russia (Sibley & Clapp, 1967) and northeast, rarely, to the northwest Hawaiian Islands, USA (Pratt et al., 1987), and exceptionally as a vagrant to the continental United States (Howell et al., 2014).

DOI

http://doi.org/10.5038/2074-1235.53.2.1650

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Recommended Citation

Dehling, Matthias D. (2025) "First Record of Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)," Marine Ornithology: Vol. 53 : Iss. 2 , Article 15.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2074-1235.53.2.1650
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/marine_ornithology/vol53/iss2/15