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Red-billed tropicbird P. aethereus (tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian oceans) Red-tailed tropicbird, P. rubricauda (Indian Ocean and the western and central tropical Pacific) White-tailed tropicbird, P. lepturus (widespread in tropical waters, except in the eastern Pacific) The red-billed tropicbird is basal within the genus.
The bird has a black band on the inner wing, a black eye-mask, and an orange-yellow to orange-red bill. [8] The bill colour, pure white back and black wing bar distinguish this species from the red-billed tropicbird. The white-tailed tropicbird breeds on tropical islands, laying a single egg directly onto the ground or a cliff ledge.
They are compact stubby birds with short tails, broad and rounded wings, and big heads. The bill is short and has a wide gap. Females and first-year males have dull green plumage; most species are sexually dichromatic in their plumage , [ 2 ] the males being mostly black with striking colours in patches, [ 3 ] and in some species having long ...
The red-tailed tropicbird is generally silent while flying. Aside from during courtship displays, birds may give a short greeting squawk to their mate when arriving or leaving the nest. Birds give a low growling call as a defence call, and young chatter repetitively as a begging call—made whenever the parents are nearby. [22]
It marks just the third sighting of the bird in the United States. The first one was spotted in 2009 in Cave Creek Canyon in southeastern Arizona. The gray-collared becard was also spotted in the ...
Quetzals (/ k ɛ t ˈ s ɑː l, ˈ k ɛ t s əl /) are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family. They are found in forests, especially in humid highlands, with the five species from the genus Pharomachrus being exclusively Neotropical, while a single species, the eared quetzal, Euptilotis neoxenus, is found in Guatemala, sometimes in Mexico and very locally in the southernmost United ...
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.
[3] [7] They lay one small clutch of 4–5 eggs per breeding season, which is typical for tropical birds. [3] The incubation period is between 15 and 20 days. [3] [7] Both males and females feed the hatchlings and fledglings leave the nest after a total of 30 to 42 days.