Tropicbirds - Family Phaethontidae
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus. Accidental. Hypothetical.
Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus. Accidental.
Tropicbirds - Phaethontidae
Tropic Bird Photo Gallery
Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds now classified in their own order Phaethontiformes.
Tropicbird Facts
Kingdom:
Five groups that classify all living things...
Tropicbirds on Midway Atoll
Two species of Tropicbirds breed on Midway. The more common is the Red-tailed Tropicbird.
Tropicbird, Red-tailed Phaethon rubricauda Found: North America, Asia, Africa, Hawaii, Australiasia
Photographed by Dick Daniels in Hawaii ...
Redbilled Tropicbird, Red-billed Tropic Bird, Red-billed Tropic-bird, Smaller Red-billed Tropic-bird (Indicus), Short-tailed Tropicbird, Bosun Bird, Bosunbird
Bird Family :
Phaethontidae - Tropicbirds ...
Red-billed Tropicbird
Phaethon aethereus
The Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) nests in cliff crevices, burrows, and other cavities on some islands of the Lesser Antilles, the Galapagos Islands and elsewhere.
Red-billed tropicbirds are the largest of the the three tropicbird species, and are named after their curved, crimson bills.
Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Short-tailed Tropicbird
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Red-tailed tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda
Identification Tips:
Length: ? inches
Sexes similar
Pelagic bird only coming ashore to breed
Tern-sized
White head and body ...
Red-tailed Tropicbird - profile
Scientific name: Phaethon rubricauda
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description ...
White-tailed Tropicbird
Phaethon lepturus Daudin
Status Rare vagrant. Ten records since 1870, five of which were collected. Several are known to have been victims of heavy gales; probably all were.
The red-tailed tropicbird, which the sailor calls the bo's'n-bird and the Polynesians the amokura, or atavaké, is one of the more beautiful birds of the mid-Pacific.
[edit] Tropicbirds
Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Phaethontidae ...
Tropicbirds, Frigate birds, Gannets and Boobies lay one egg.
The other families lay 3 to 5. The birds live in large colonies
and build nests of twigs and branches
Picture Pelican ...
Tropicbirds (Family Phaethontidae)
Boobies and Gannets (Family Sulidae)
Pelicans (Family Pelecanidae)
Cormorants (Family Phalacrocoracidae)
Frigatebirds (Family Fregatidae) ...
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
White-vented storm-petrel (Oceanites gracilis)
Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)
Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata)
Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) ...
These are the tropicbirds, crow-sized with gull-like wings. The adults can be identified by their long central tail feathers and are usually seen far out to sea. They lack the throat pouch found in the other families of this order.
The PO'C trips are overdue for either tropicbird ( a Red-billed Tropicbird was seen on a Venice, LA trip on June 9, 1996).
Magnificent frigates steal the tropicbird's precious cargo.
No wonder frigate birds are also known as "man of war" birds. These pirates of the skies are able to catch tropic birds in mid-flight, forcing them to surrender their hard-earned supper.
Pelicans and their relatives (Pelicaniformes) include the blue-footed booby, brown pelican, red-billed tropicbird, cormorants, gannets, and the great frigatebird.
ORDER: Pelecaniformes (pelicans, tropicbirds, cormorants, and relatives)
FAMILY: Pelecanidae (pelicans)
GENUS/SPECIES: Pelecanus onocrotalus ...
Bermuda: White-tailed Tropicbird
Bolivia: the Andean Condor
British Virgin Islands: the Mourning Dove ...
THE TROPIC BIRD.
[White-tailed Tropicbird.]
PHAETON AETHEREUS, Linn.
[Phaeton lepturus.] ...
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A Perch in the Middle of the Ocean
Tropicbirds in my Backyard
Manx Shearwaters
Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides ...
Following the birds' rediscovery in 1951, the Bermuda Conservation Programme periodically removed rats, installed concrete nesting burrows with wooden baffles over burrow entrances to keep out larger, competing White-tailed Tropicbirds, ...
A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae. Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigate birds, and tropicbirds, ...
Puffinus puffinus Manx shearwater
Puffinus tenuirostris Short-tailed shearwater
Puffinus yelkouan Yelkouan shearwater
5 Frigatebirds
5 Terns
5 Tropicbirds
Steller's sea eagle, Haliaeetus pelagicus - world's largest eagle ...
 See also: Petrel, Pelican, Swift, Pigeon, Cuckoo
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