#birdoftheday #black&red and black & red and ....
#GreatFrigatebird 3 males mating display & one female
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A large black bird with a green sheen sits in the crook of a knobbly tree. Its head is looking up and to the side. You can see its thin hooked beak and just a glimpse of red throat pouch.

A brown duck is sleeping in tall dried grass. It has its neck up and its head tucked. Its closed eye has a white ring a red bill. The feathers are fluffed.

Layers of burnished iridescent feathers cover the back of a bird. They are red and copper and gold.

Spiky slightly dirty feathers hang from the long neck of a heron. Smoother blue and gray feathers are visible on the body of the bird.

@alan678.bsky.social decreed today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme to be #feathers. Here are my choices. #GreatFrigatebird #BlackBelliedWhistlingDuck #GlossyIbis #GreatBlueHeron #birds #WildlifePhotography #ECK

Large generally dark bird with brown to black feathers and green sheen on back, having inflated a large red skin pouch with a few scattered small feathers close to the bird and away from the most distant part of the pouch. Large mildly curved upward greenish beak ending in a moderate hook.

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Great Frigatebird, Kanaha Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Maui County, Hawaii, 2-24-25
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