-
occasionally squid.
Tropicbirds tend to
avoid multi-species
feeding flocks,
unlike the frigatebirds,
which have
similar diets.
Tropicbirds are
usually solitary...
- Red-billed
tropicbirds are
aggressive at nest sites,
fighting with each
other and
ousting species such as shearwaters, petrels, and white-tailed
tropicbirds. They...
- The white-tailed
tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) or yellow-billed
tropicbird is a
tropicbird. It is the
smallest of
three closely related seabirds of the...
-
adult white-tailed
tropicbird.
Immature red-tailed
tropicbirds likewise can be
distinguished from
immature white-tailed
tropicbirds by
their partly red...
- (landbirds)
Aequornithes (waterbirds)
Eurypygimorphae (sunbittern, kagu and
tropicbirds)
Otidimorphae (turacos,
bustards and cuckoos)
Strisores (nightjars, swifts...
- ɪˈθɒntɪfɔːrmiːz/ are an
order of birds. They
contain one
extant family, the
tropicbirds (Phaethontidae), and one
extinct family Prophaethontidae from the early...
-
Phaethontimorphae is a
clade of
birds that
contains the
orders Phaethontiformes (
tropicbirds) and
Eurypygiformes (kagu and sunbittern)
recovered by
genome analysis...
- orders, the kagu and
sunbittern (Eurypygiformes) and the
three species of
tropicbirds (Phaethontiformes)
together styled as the
Eurypygimorphae are the closest...
-
Tropicbirds, darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, and frigatebirds, all
traditional members of the order, have
since been reclassified:
tropicbirds...
- red-billed
tropicbirds, Sarg****o shearwaters,
brown boobies,
laughing gulls,
brown noddies,
sooty and
bridled terns. A few
pairs of white-tailed
tropicbirds also...
