Flyer’s downfall, circling oil installation ahead of time

Usage examples of frigate bird.

The frigate bird would often hover high over some headland for an hour at a time, a black speck seemingly motionless, and then swoop and pick up some piece of garbage, never getting its feathers wet, rarely trying for a live fish.

A frigate bird, superb with its forked tail, came wheeling above them with motionless wings, and having obviously decided that they were not worth plundering, swooped away again towards the island where the cormorants were fishing industriously.

Now and then a great albatross or frigate bird passed within gunshot, and Gideon Spilett wondered if it was to one of them that he had confided his last letter addressed to the New York Herald.

Each male great frigate bird at mating time tried to attract the attention of females by inflating a bright red balloon at the base of his throat.

Moss covered the rude paving of their temples, and the images of their gods, on the cliffs above, were roosting places for gannet and frigate bird.

Giordino chewed on a small thigh from a frigate bird Pitt had managed to shoot with his miniature automatic pistol.

If a man in a canoe could spot a frigate bird, its cleft tail cutting the wind, he could be sure that land lay in the direction toward which the bird had flown at dusk.

Gulls and a fork-tailed frigate bird sailed inquiringly about the plane.

A single frigate bird or gull, perhaps, is the only creature stirring.