Red-billed Tropicbird
(Phaethon aethereus)
Three subspecies are recognized:
P. a. mesonauta
P. a. aethereus
P. a. indicus
Videograbs of a subadult Red-billed Tropicbird off Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina May 2001. Copyright
Angus Wilson©.
Spectacular
adult in flight and series of adults and chicks on nest Taken by Greg
Lasley on Saba in the Netherlands Antilles, in July.
Series
of adults and subadults Taken by Brian Patteson in Gulf Stream off
North Carolina in July and August.
Series
from Monterey Photos by Bert McKee taken on the September 5th, 1998
on a Shearwater Journeys pelagic trip to the Monterey Seavalley, seen about
ten miles sw of Pt. Pinos, Monterey County, Northern California.
Videograb of a subadult Red-billed Tropicbird off Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina May 2001. Copyright
Angus Wilson©.
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rights reserved. Angus Wilson
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