tropicbird

IPA: trˈɑpɪkbɝd

noun

  • Any of the various seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, typically found in the open ocean in the tropics

tropic bird

IPA: trˈɑpɪkbˈɝd

noun

  • mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land
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Examples of "tropicbird" in Sentences

  • There are only three known species of tropicbird.
  • White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) occurs as a distinctive morph on Europa Island.
  • "It looked similar to a tern species and then I saw the long tail," she said of the tropicbird.
  • The bird fauna of Niue Island, southwest Pacific, with special notes on the white-tailed tropicbird and golden plover.
  • Ms. Miller planned to turn the tropicbird over to Mr. Sweet, who was eager to collect as many accidental visitors as possible.
  • Other important breeding seabird populations are the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) and red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda).
  • Geographical variation in the white-tailed tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, with the description of a new subspecies endemic to Europa Island, southern Mozambique Channel.
  • The major islands have such special species as the white-tailed tropicbird, the rare Manx (Newell's) shearwater, and the dark-rumped petrel, all of which seek crater walls for nesting.
  • Other notable species are the brown booby (16), blue-footed booby (2,000), white-tailed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus (100) and brown noddy Anous stolidus (650 – the largest colony in Mexico).
  • These differences lead scientists to believe that the Europa population of white-tailed tropicbird is isolated from other nearby colonies in the Indian Ocean; it has been proposed as a distinct subspecies, Phaethon lepturus europae, by Le Corre and Jouventin.
  • For seabirds some of the largest colonies of tropical Atlantic seabirds are found on the Fernando de Noronha islands, with large numbers species including the black noddy or Anous minutis, the brown noddy Anous stolidus, the sooty tern Sterna fuscata, the fairy tern Gygis alba, the masked booby Sula dactylatra, the brown booby Sula leucogaster, the red footed booby Sula sula; the magnificent frigatebird Fragata magnificans and the red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus.

Examples of "tropic-bird" in Sentences

  • Like the albatross and the tropic-bird, forever on the wing,
  • I know of this only in the fowl, swan, tropic-bird, owl, ruff and reeve, and cuckoo.
  • At this time, we saw a tropic-bird, and a dolphin, the first that we had observed during the passage.
  • The tropic-bird, often called the boatswain, or phaëton, also climbs to great heights, and is seldom found out of these latitudes.
  • They failed from Cape Farewell on the 31 (1 of March, 1770, and had fine weather and a fair wind till the 9th of April, when they faw a tropic-bird.
  • Notwithstanding we were so far advanced to the northward, we saw this day a tropic-bird, and also several other kinds of sea-birds, such as puffins, sea-parrots, sheerwaters, and albatrosses.
  • On the fourteenth they saw a "tropic-bird," which the sailors thought was never seen more than twenty-five leagues from land; but it must be remembered, that, outside of the Mediterranean, few of the sailors had ever been farther themselves.
  • The chiefs of inferior rank have likewife a fhort cloak, which refembles the former, and is made of the long tail-feathers of the cock, the man-of - war bird, and the tropic-bird, having a broad border of fmall yellow and red feathers, and aJfo a collar of the fame.
  • The tail-feathers of the cock, and of the tropic-bird, are also used in the same manner; but the most valuable are those which have the handle made of the arm or leg bones of an enemy slain in battle, and which are preserved with great care, and handed down from father to son, as trophies of inestimable value.
  • He taught his little pupil their names and their habits; he showed her the lovely Madagascar teal, with its orange breast and emerald back; he bade her admire the flight of the red-winged tropic-bird, which sometimes strays to those regions and flies in a few hours from Mauritius to Rodrigues, whither, after a journey of two hundred leagues, it returns to sleep under the veloutier in which its nest is hidden.

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