Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.

"I followed a man-of-war bird to a school of 20- to 40-pound dolphin one time.

I walked along a thin beach at Marathon's north end, watching two man-of-war birds soar effortlessly over whitecaps.

The Man-of-War Bird seemed to know better.

Like all the Museum people, the Man-of-War Bird said "we" when he spoke of his ancestors.

"Why, of course," said the Man-of-War Bird; "how else would we find our islet among so many?

"I'll tell you," said the Man-of-War Bird, who was a great traveler, "they didn't all land on this coast.

Black-and-white man-of-war birds soar on impalpable drafts and open their tails like scissors on the curves

"Not me, but my ancestors," said the Man-of-War Bird; "_they_ saw the Great Admiral when he first sailed in these waters.

Just opposite is the green and silver coral islet of Cay Verde, with the Man-of-War Birds nesting among the flat leaves of the sea-grape.

A man-of-war bird, its great wings outspread, wheeled into the wind and hovered over us for a few seconds, seeming to stand motionless against that mighty stream as it looked down at us.

There were dense colonies of gannets, man-of-war birds and boatswain birds, terns and noddies, with eggs and chicks, and he shot a godwit and a brace of plovers.

In the third wā, 52 types of flying creatures, which include birds of the sea such as ʻIwa (frigate or man-of-war bird), the Lupe, and the Noio (Hawaiian noddy tern).

A man-of-war bird passed a few feet overhead, its long forked tall opening and closing as it glided through the swirling currents about the forestaysail and the jibs, but neither Jack nor Stephen moved their steady gaze from the land.

The jagged shadow of a man-of-war bird floated across the green Bahama grass of the lawn as it sailed on the air currents up the coast to some distant colony, and a slate-blue kingfisher chattered angrily as it saw the man sitting in the chair in the garden.

It is an environment of great violence, beauty and motion: man-of-war birds zipping by within inches of your head, angelfish and black-tipped reef sharks at your feet, and always the big Pacific combers marching in to die in shuddering explosions against the coral ramparts of the barrier reef.

The frigatebirds are a family, Fregatidae, of seabirds.

Fregatidae: frigatebirds.

It is one of five closely related species of Frigatebird that make up their own genus (Fregata) and family (Fregatidae).

Lesser Frigatebird FREGATIDAE (Fregata ariel)

Olson, Storrs L. (1977): A Lower Eocene frigatebird from the Green River Formation of Wyoming (Pelecaniformes, Fregatidae).

Olson, Storrs L. & Matsuoka, Hiroshige (2005): New specimens of the early Eocene frigatebird Limnofregata (Pelecaniformes: Fregatidae), with the description of a new species.

In recognition of this, the Sulae have been proposed for separation in a new order Phalacrocoraciformes, which also includes the frigatebirds (Fregatidae) as well as one or more prehistoric lineages that are entirely extinct today.