#1072 · 🐦 birds
Magnificent Frigatebird
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Fregatvogel ·Fregata magnificens
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Kenneth Lorenzen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bernabe Jimenez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © José Antonio Linage Espinosa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © José Antonio Linage Espinosa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © José Antonio Linage Espinosa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Albert Michaud · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Sergio Martínez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © J. Ismael Arellano Ciau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © José Antonio Linage Espinosa · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The magnificent frigatebird ( Fregata magnificens ) is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae. 0 ft) it is the largest species of frigatebird. It occurs over tropical and subtropical waters off America, between northern Mexico and Ecuador on the Pacific coast and between Florida and southern Brazil along the Atlantic coast. There are also populations on the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific and the Cape Verde islands...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 42,773 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 88 g.
- Scientifically named by Gregory Macalister Mathews in 1914 (112 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Fregatvogel
- scientific name
- Fregata magnificens
- class
- Aves
- order
- Suliformes
- family
- Fregatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 42,773
- GBIF records in NL
- 28
- weight
- 88 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1914 by Gregory Macalister Mathews
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4631, Wikidata Q647512, GBIF 2480189, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.