It is officially listed as 'vulnerable' and it faces the prospect of extinction unless things get better.

With only around 1,200 pairs confined to this small island in the Indian Ocean, the Christmas Island frigate bird is one of the worlds most threatened seabirds. This new satellite tracking data will add enormously to our knowledge of the species.

I was recruiting my No. 1 prospect to come back. That's the approach that I took. We just had to present our side.

If you have lots of small isolated populations, each one of them is more vulnerable to local extinction.

It is now officially at an end.

We as humans will become more distinct before extinction, distinction before extinction