red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) juvenile

Query: Phaethon rubricauda rubricauda

Result: 10^th of 25

Subject:	red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) juvenile
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Starr 080609-7979 Casuarina equisetifolia.jpg

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red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) juvenile

Casuarina equisetifolia (habit with red tailed tropicbird chick). Location: Midway Atoll, East of northsouth runway Sand Island
Date 9 June 2008
Source Plants of Hawaii, Image 080609-7979 from http://www.hear.org/starr/plants/images/image/?q=080609-7979
Author Forest & Kim Starr http://www.hear.org/starr/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starr_080609-7979_Casuarina_equisetifolia.jpg

The red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It nests in colonies on oceanic islands. The species is also known by its Maori name, amokura.

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Scientific Name: Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert, 1783 Common Names: Red-tailed Tropicbird, amokura French: Phaéton à brins rouges, Phaéton à queue rouge; German: Rotschwanz-Tropikvogel; Spanish: Rabijunco colirrojo, Rabijunco cola roja Taxonomy: Phaeton [sic] rubricauda Boddaert, 1783, Mauritius.

Phaethon rubricauda rubricauda
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