This guy apparently hangs out at the fish cleaning shack and has convinced the people working there to feed him regularly. He's pretty good at catching chunks of fish when they are thrown upwards.
When I've seen documentaries of Frigates, they are always accused of going after other birds that have food they caught on their own. The smaller white birds would also wait for fish scraps thrown upwards and were more often successful (more so than the frigate). The frigate would subsequently go into pirate mode and chase until the smaller bird either swallowed the fish chunk or dropped it trying to do the former.
When there is wind blowing, these guys exemplify efficiency - I watched them for 10 minutes and they flapped their wings maybe twice.
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