A small team of researchers, including foundation investigator Curtis Deutsch, Ph.D., have discovered that the great frigate bird (Fregata minor) is able to stay aloft for up to two months at a time. To gather this information, the team affixed trackers to several of the birds as part of a two-year study. 

Learn more, and see a full opinion piece from Deutsch here


 

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