- 5 species in tropics worldwide - DR personal total: 4 species
(80%), 3 photo'd Oh people, look among you It's there your hope
must lie There's a sea bird above you Gliding in one place . . .
. . . like Jesus in the sky We all must do the best we can . . .
Rock Me on the Water (1972) all the songwriter-singers on earth,
I think Jackson Browne is probably my favorite. I've heard this
song a million times, and each time I can't help but think of
some tropical place with a frigatebird hanging in the sky way
overhead, wings out-stretched. Maybe I'm the only one with that
image — but it has been a vivid image for a long long time. It
can be a male Lesser Frigatebird (above), soaring above Bali, or
a young Great Frigatebird (left) in the eastern tropical
Pacific, but it is some place sultry and warm. For me,
frigatebirds evoke the tropical oceans. are, indeed, a small
family of large piratic birds of tropical oceans. Beyond their
long wings and aerial agility, they are best known for their
kleptoparasitism on othe