Everyone, Today at the Detroit Metropark hawk watch (just south of Detroit) they saw and photographed a frigatebird that certainly looks like an adult male Lesser Frigatebird. Three photos can be seen here:
http://www.smrr.net/gallery/nonraptors.shtml The only other North American record of this species was in Maine (1960). When last seen the bird was flying north, which basically means it was approaching Amhersburg, Ontario, and / or entering the Detroit River. Today's bird is NOT the same frigatebird seen this past Tuesday on Lake Erie just east of Cleveland, which was an immature presumably Magnificent Frigatebird. The single photo of that bird can be seen here: http://aves.net/birdnews/ (scroll down on this page). So now we have TWO frigatebirds on Lake Erie, and probably TWO species! Alan Wormington, Leamington
