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Puffing Up When Courting Poster
by Don Mercer
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Puffing Up When Courting poster by Don Mercer. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Charles Darwin once called the male magnificent frigate bird (fregata magnificens) the condor of the ocean. When courting a female, the male appears... more
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Charles Darwin once called the male magnificent frigate bird (fregata magnificens) the "condor of the ocean." When courting a female, the male appears to puff out its chest; but the bird is using its gular sac, which is a bright red, when used, and appears as if a balloon was being inflated. After our group landed at Baltra, we were taken by boat for the brief trip to North Seymour Island. We hiked over some of the island, much of the time amongst numerous frigate birds, at times with nests no more than six feet off our trail.
About Don Mercer
Don Mercer is an author and freelance fine art photographer. Research for one book took him to the middle of Cambodia in 1999, as he was the first from among his wartime unit to return to that country. During the War in Southeast Asia - known to most as the Vietnam War, he flew over two hundred combat missions as an Air Force pilot in the Cessna O-2A. His combat assignment was as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. The majority of his combat missions were flown in Cambodia at night. While in Southeast Asia in 1970-71, his interest in photography intensified with the purchase of his first two of numerous Nikon cameras. Black and white, as well as color, 35mm, and Super 8 movie films were used at the time. The transition to digital...
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