red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)

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Subject:	red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
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English: « Phaethon aethereus » = Phaethon aethereus (Red-billed Tropicbird)
Français: « Phaethon aethereus » = Phaethon aethereus (Phaéton à bec rouge)
Date 1899
Source Novitates Zoologicae, vol. 6
Author Frederick William Frohawk (1861–1946)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phaethon_aethereus_1899.jpg

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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