Hi friends, I hope you like the new upload! 🪶 The fact that birds can sleep on the wing was news to me and I was truly impressed when I've read that magnificent frigatebirds can stay aloft for days. Scientists also found out that some individuals stayed in the air even for weeks. That's insane, right!? Have some of you ever heard about it? 🙋🏽‍♀️Kati, from Terra Mater

"The larger the sack, the more attractive a male seems to be". Truer and wiser words have seldom been spoken.

They also feed by pirateparisitism, harassing other seabirds, such as albatross or skua, etc, causing the victim to disgorge already swallowed prey, which the frigate then quickly swallows. Uh, yuck, I know.

What a cool bird, blowing up their throat pouch and using it like a drum. Thanks for another great video.

I first saw this bird on discovery channel and got impressed by their skills.

"In short, the larger the sac, the more attractive a male seems to be." /nocontext 😅

at first and at 2x speed, I thought you said "this is a magnificent fricking bird" and I was like: "yeah, that's true, it seems to be a nice bird" xD

How do they avoid collisions with other birds or any other obstacles when they sleep while flying? Would this put them at a special risk if there were any offshore windparks in their habitats?

What a interesting display. I knew about the magnificent frigate bird but i would have never known that they can sleep while flying. Thanks for the great video

Brazil... Very Interesting place since there are tons of animal there. Can't wait for you guys to document more in Brazil

Impossible to not like those videos from this Channel!!

Fascinating video! I just had to take a double take when the script repeated itself (or the intro?). This is pedantic, but I wish there was different phrasing for the same information!

See size does matters 😂😂

Such a strange and wonderful things about magnificent frigate birds. Thanks for bringing it up for us. Just loved it ❤️

Love the cinematography. Terra Mater never fails to amaze us! 🤗

We discovered these a few weeks ago at West Palm Beach, Florida, and found them beautiful.

This bird is on auto pilot. No need to worry anything.

Interesting knowledge 😉

uncertain words are the fav of documentary creators.

I think the most amazing thing is flying while sleeping... I can barely even walk right when only half asleep. I would really hurt myself trying that in total sleep. :)

Excellent narrator 😁

Terra Mater never fails to impress and always bring fresh - quality contents. This is legit my favourite channel on KZfaq, you guys deserve so much more recognition/views/subscribers. Thanks Terra Mater team for such high quality content 😊❤

I read about these birds in a science magazine very long ago before internet was widespread.

*Sleeping while driving but instead of human’s, it is birds*

Catching fish looks easy when they do it

Saw these on the Galápagos Islands, amazing to see in person

This literally the best channel on KZfaq ❤️

Nice video. Thanks for sharing it. I do have one correction: "frigates would drown if they ever fell into the sea." --- In actuality, another frigate bird will use the curved tip of its beak, hook it to tip of the victim bird's beak, and it will pull the helpless bird out of the water. During this rescue effort, the bird will be dropped a number of times. During the short periods that the bird is left in the water, the rescuer will circle from above signaling other other nearby frigates to aid in the rescue attempt. In the end. One frigate will lift the bird out of the water, gain as much altitude as possible before the victim bird gets dropped. Then, another frigate will swoop down and catch it before it falls back into the water. Then, it will elevate until the bird is again dropped and another will catch it. They'll do this repetition until the birds wings have flapped enough water off of them to fly. Not even the great David Attenborough knows this fact so it's a common mistake. It's a very cool event to experience. I feel like I have a million of these little known knowledges. They're hard to avoid when living in the most intensely bio diverse place on earth. If you're interested in visiting, I'll gladly show you around. Google me. Cheers and once again, thanks for the vid!

Incredible

Never knew they could sleep on the wing, great video as always!

Such an awesome channel

Wow, I didn't knew about these birds. I thought I had seen them in a cartoon like Tom and Jerry or something similar but it was nice knowing these were real and look as amazing as I remember them I'm cartoons if not better ♥️

The larger the sack! Hahahaha ain’t that the truth.😅

This is pretty nice

Birds are amazing

Everytime she says the name of the bird I hear fricking bird

Amazing video. If possible could you please also do comparison of this bird with Albatross and birds similar like this in a video. That would be great to understand how these sea birds are similar in nature. Thanks.

Masha Allah

Nice birdy

THAT is a title that grabbed my attention😄🙌

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Oneday or maybe people can drive a car while sleeping just like these birds.

Awesome birds ❤❤

Pilots do that all the time!

I know that bird it's my favorite

What an amazing bird :)

the are the national animal of Kiribati

The length of parental care needed by the chick is surprising, wonder why it would take 9 months? Do they grow extremely slowly or is it more of the young staying with the mother until it is experienced enough?

Drums and clicks?? That bird listen to tipper?????

When I sleep I dream I'm flying

Absolutely massive sacks

In your Harpy Eagle video you said that the chick fledged at about 6 months but stay in the nest up to a year. In this video you say 9 months is the longest time a mother looks after her chick. Do the Harpy eagles not reuse their nests? Or do they "gift" the nest and territory to their chicks? What's the difference between the care the frigatebird mother provides that makes it "longer" than the care that the Harpy Eagle parents provide "up to a year"

Some eagles raise their offspring for well over 1 year.

They sleep in the air? A predators dream.

longest care of any bird? i dont think so... the philippine eagle caews for years

Bigger, 😂the better

Great

Video didn’t answer the question posed in the title, and only said that Magnificent Frigatebirds “may” sleep in the air. This is frustrating. Write better titles! If it’s interesting enough to watch, that can’t be impossible.

They'll go to Brazil.

autopilot

I can fly only while sleeping.

I’m not sure if I have any questions about this or anything but I’m still trying to figure out 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊