red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)

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Subject:	red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
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Phaëton aethereus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ18000007.jpg

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red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)

Phaëton aethereus
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pha%C3%ABton_aethereus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18000007.tif

The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), also known as the boatswain bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek phaethon, "sun" and Latin aetherius, "heavenly". The red-billed tropicbird occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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