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The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) is a tropicbird, one of three closely related species of seabird of tropical oceans. Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wings and back, a black mask and, as its common name suggests, a red bill.
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The red-billed tropicbird is basal within the genus. The split between the red-billed tropicbird and the other two tropicbirds is hypothesized to have taken place about six million years ago, with the split between the red-tailed and white-tailed tropicbird taking place about four million years ago. [9]
Red-tailed tropicbird. Order: Phaethontiformes Family: Phaethontidae. Tropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers. Their heads and long wings have black markings. Two species have been recorded in Peru. Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus (V) Red-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon ...
The group's origins may lie even earlier if the enigmatic waterbird Novacaesareala from the latest Cretaceous or earliest Paleocene of New Jersey is considered a tropicbird. [ 3 ] Many phaethontiform fossil taxa are known from the Paleocene and Eocene , but the fossil record becomes much more scant after the Oligocene .
Red-tailed tropicbird. Order: Phaethontiformes Family: Phaethontidae. Tropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers. Their heads and long wings have black markings. Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus; Red-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda (V) White-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon ...
Red-billed tropicbird. Order: Phaethontiformes Family: Phaethontidae. Tropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers. Their heads and long wings have black markings. Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus
Red-tailed tropicbird. Order: Phaethontiformes Family: Phaethontidae. Tropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers. Their long wings have black markings, as does the head. White-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon lepturus LC; Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus LC