North Seymour had tons of great frigatebirds.
Even though the mating season is still months away, many of them were courting.
The males inflate these big red pouches on their necks to attract females.
The process takes days, during which it’s hard to fly.
Or scratch.
Once they are inflated, when they see a female they spread their wings,
poof up their neck frills,
Spread their wings,
and shake while calling.
If the female likes him, she swoops in and lands.
Unfortunately this relationship didn’t work out. The male bit her beak
and she flew off.
If it does work out, they produce these super cute fluffball babies.
Which grow into bigger fluffball babies.
This little guy was desperately trying to mate even though he was still fluffy.
Then they grow into adolescents.
The frigatebirds can’t swim, because they don’t make oil for their feathers and don’t have webbed feet. This also makes them really light and they only weigh 1 lb at full size.
So they steal from others.
The baby blue footed boobies cry loudly for their Mom’s to come feed them.
But when she comes in with food, the frigatebirds try to intercept her.
They viciously keep trying to steal the food.
Ganging up and pecking at the poor baby booby.
This time the baby got his food though.
The young boobie’s feet aren’t very blue.
But the grownups feet are as blue as Kerri’s.
There were also land iguanas.
They were very scaly.
We also saw many sea lions.
Some of them were surfing in the very large waves.
It was hard work for the little guys.
