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Definition of Tropic bird

Tropic bird
Tropic Trop"ic, a. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical. Tropic bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Pha["e]thon, found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Pha["e]thon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.

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- Tropicbird". www.oiseaux-birds.com. "White-tailed Tropicbird – Conservation – Neotropical Birds Online". neotropical.birds.cornell.edu. 22 November 2023...
- Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Tropic-bird". Tropicbird Identification Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine...
- Bartholomew, George A. (1962). "Temperature regulation in the red-tailed tropic bird and the red-footed booby". Condor. 64 (1): 6–18. doi:10.2307/1365438...
- The Tropic of Capricorn (or the Southern Tropic) is the circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point at the December (or southern) solstice. It...
- The Civil Aviation Department RG-1 Rohini (Literally means Tropic Bird) is an Indian two-seat training sailplane of the 1960s. A high-winged wooden monoplane...
- Library (includes An Opossum of Van Diemen's Land, 1777, Red-tailed Tropic Bird, 1777, and The Death of Captain Cook, c.1781–83.); and the National Gallery...
- Gules and Vert above water barry wavy Azure and Argent a White Tailed Tropic Bird (Phaethon lepturus lepturus) volant proper. SUPPORTERS: On either side...
- noddy terns, lava gulls, tropic birds, doves, storm petrels and Darwin finches are also in sight. Prince Philip's Steps is a bird-watching plateau with Nazca...
- Saltire Azure Supporters On either side a Red-billed Tropic Bird proper Motto Gratia In Te Est Badge Two Red-billed Tropic Birds volant in saltire proper...
- Lollik has no critical nesting sites for any bird species. The cliff-site nesting areas for the tropic bird are de facto protected from humans by their...