red-tailed tropicbird

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A red-tailed tropicbird

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red-tailed tropicbird (plural red-tailed tropicbirds)

  1. A species of tropicbird native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Phaethon rubricauda.
    • 1932, Chamber's Journal, volume 1, page 198:
      Among other birds, the green parakeets were found in abundance, also the red-tailed tropic-bird, which nests in the pumice tufts.

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