Photo of the Day 2

Galápagos Islands, 1986

Photograph by Sam Abell

Great frigatebirds, silhouetted against a gray-blue sky, feed in the waters around Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos. Frigatebirds use their long, hooked bills to scoop their favorite food, flying fish, from above or just below the water's surface.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Majestic Island Worlds, 1987)