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Frigate bird trying to steal dinner

On North Seymour, one of the Galapagos Islands, as our naturalist guide was explaining that frigatebirds occasionally feed by piracy, I watched as this frigatebird swooped down to try to steal dinner from a Blue-footed Booby feeding its baby. He was unsuccessful!

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2016
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Ecuador
Camera: X-T1
Copyright: © Edmund Henry