We've had a couple of trips out and about, and seen some birds on the way. We also had some visitors to the garden.
One trip was to the coastal village of Hopkins. As well as more frigate birds, there were some Terns who sat and watched us swim.
I think these are Royal Terns - large yellow beak and quite a distinctive raised tuft on the head.
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The frigate birds are certainly huge: my reference book says a metre long and with a 2 1/4 metre wingspan. But the other birds are more regular sizes. The Grackles are about 30cm for the females and 40cm for the males; the Kiskadee are probably 30cm too.
The Royal Terns here are a bit bigger; maybe 45-50 cm, with a similar wingspan.
There are some other big birds - birds of prey and vultures - but also a large number of very small ones. Hopefully I'll be able to photograph a fair cross section of the birds we see.
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