Photo by Duncan Wright, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Female Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) with wing tag. Taken on East Island, French Frigate Shoals
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American Samoa,Australia,Brazil,Chile,China,Colombia,Comoros,Cook Islands,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland, French Polynesia,Guam,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Japan,Kenya,Kiribati,Madagascar,Malaysia, Maldives,Marshall Islands,Mexico,Micronesia,Mozambique,Nauru,New Caledonia,Northern Mariana Islands,Palau,Papua New Guinea, Philippines,Pitcairn Islands,Saint Helena,Samoa,Seychelles,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,Sri Lanka,Tanzania, Thailand,Tokelau,Tonga,Tuvalu,United States - Hawaii,Vietnam,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies
Group
Subspecies
Breeding Range
nicolli
sw South Atlantic Ocean islands: Trindade and Martim Vaz (e of e Brazil)
aldabrensis
sw tropical South Indian Ocean islands: Europa (w of s Madagascar, Mozambique Channel), Aldabra and Cosmoledo (Aldabra group, sw Seychelles), St. Brandon (n of Mascarenes)
minor
Chagos Arch. (nc Indian Ocean), Cocos (Keeling) Is. (ec Indian Ocean), Christmas I. (s of w Java), Flores and Banda Sea is. (sc, se Indonesian Arch.), Ashmore Reef (nw of Australia), islands off nw WA and Gulf of Carpentaria (nc Australia)
palmerstoni
w, c tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean islands: from Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea is. (ne Australia) and Tench I. (St. Matthias group, nc Bismarck Arch.), Chesterfield Is. (w of New Caledonia), Walpole I. (e of New Caledonia), Palau (w Caroline I
ridgwayi
subtropical to tropical e Pacific islands: Revillagigedo (w of c Mexico), del Coco (far sw of Costa Rica), Wolf and Darwin (=Wenman and Culpepper, nw Galápagos), Genovesa (ne Galápagos) and several other small islands of Galápagos, La Plata and Santa Clar
Except for an occasional wanderer from a nesting site on the Galapagos, the Great Frigatebird rarely reaches tropical America. The Great Frigatebird is very similar to the [Magnificent Frigatebird], but smaller.
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
