BirdUp · Species
Christmas Frigatebird
Fregata andrewsiMathews, 1914
Critically EndangeredNative
- Order
- SULIFORMES
- Family
- Fregatidae
- Genus
- Fregata
- Conservation
- Critically Endangered
- Commonness
- Rare
- Best seen
- Summer
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The Christmas frigatebird or Christmas Island frigatebird is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae which is an endemic breeder to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Apart from the Ascension frigatebird, the three other species of frigatebird have much more widely distributed breeding locations.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Christmas I. (south of west Java)
- Non-breeding range
- Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand across Sunda Shelf to South China Sea and Sulu Sea (south-west Philippines)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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