Red-billed Tropicbird
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Phaethontiformes |
| Family: | Phaethontidae |
| Genus: | Phaethon |
| Species: | P. aethereus |
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| Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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The Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, also known as the Boatswain Bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The Indian Ocean race of the Red-billed Tropicbird, P. a. indicus, was at one time considered a full species, the Lesser Red-billed Tropicbird from Pakistan and the western Republic of India.
References [change]
- ↑ BirdLife International (2008). Phaethon aethereus. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 16 April 2009.
