red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
Date 24 October 2009, 15:29
Source Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
Author Dominic Sherony http://www.flickr.com/people/9765210@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-billed_Tropicbird_(Phaethon_aethereus)_(4089464789).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.
