Red-tailed Tropicbird

Phaethon rubricauda

Least Concern

The Red-tailed Tropicbird is a graceful tropicbird of tropical Indian and western Pacific oceans and remote island coasts. 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-tailed Tropicbird Range — Resident or seasonal range in tropical Indian and western Pacific oceans and remote island coasts

Population

≈ 2M–20M

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