Fregata ariel

Breeding regions are TrO. Breeding subregions are widespread, tropical Indian and Pacific ocean is., also nw South Atlantic. Non breeding regions are to waters off se Africa, sw India and Sri Lanka, throughout Indonesian Arch. and Philippines to Taiwan, New Guinea waters, n Australia and Melanesia.

Sumber: IOC World Bird List, v

<p>Lesser Frigate-Bird is a scarce non-breeding offshore visitor species in Vietnam, with the only previous records from Cochinchina (Robson 2008, Craik and Minh 2018, Hung et al. 2021b). This is the first confirmed record for the species in Central Annam. Elsewhere, this species has been recorded resident in Australia, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, China, Christmas Island, Comoros, Fiji, French Polynesia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, North Korea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, United States, Vanuatu, breeding in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Réunion, Seychelles and non-breeding in Micronesia, northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Timor-Leste, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Djibouti, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman and Somalia (IUCN 2024).</p>

Sumber: New records of birds from Central Vietnam

Local name Marmaré (Sansundi). Range F. a. ariel Biak, Supiori, Rani, Yapen. Status Occasional visitor in small numbers to surrounding waters and occasionally along the coast. 6 August 2015: seven off Rani (N. Voaden, eBird checklist S 24512191).

Sumber: The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy