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Christmas frigatebird
The Christmas frigatebird or Christmas Island frigatebird (''Fregata andrewsi'') is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae which is endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
The Christmas frigatebird is a large lightly built seabird with brownish-black plumage, long narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It has a wingspan of around . The male has an egg shaped white patch on its belly and a striking red gular sac which it inflates to attract a mate. The female is slightly larger than the male and has a white breast and belly. They feed on fish taken in flight from the ocean's surface (mostly flying fish), and sometimes indulge in kleptoparasitism, harassing other birds to force them to regurgitate their food. The species is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
==Taxonomy==
The Christmas frigatebird was once considered to belong to the species ''Fregata aquila'' but in 1914 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews proposed that the Christmas frigatebird should be considered as a separate species with the binomial name ''Fregata andrewsi'' in honour of the English paleontogist Charles Andrews. Of the four other species within the ''Fregata'' genus, genetic analysis has shown that the Christmas frigatebird is most closely related to the great frigatebird.
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