Red-billed Tropicbird
Phaethon aethereus
Least ConcernThe Red-billed Tropicbird is a graceful tropicbird of tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Ocean island waters. It spends most of its life over warm open sea, plunge-diving for fish and squid, and returns to cliffs, ledges, or island ground to breed with its distinctive long tail streamers.
- Family
- Phaethontidae
- Group
- Tropicbirds
- Range
- Red-billed Tropicbird Range — Resident or seasonal range in tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Ocean island waters
- Population
- ≈ ~33.3M