tropicbirds

The tropicbirds were a particular thrill since only six are recorded in the annals of New York birding, according to "Bull's Birds of New York State."

NYT > Home Page By LISA W. FODERARO 2011

There are large populations of such water birds as terns, tropicbirds, boobies, shearwaters, and petrels.

Hawaiian Islands Province (Bailey) 2009

Even the smallest, uninhabitable islands are significant as breeding sites for large numbers of seabirds such as frigatebirds, tropicbirds, boobies, terns, and smaller species.

Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests 2008

Finally, there might be a hitherto overlooked metavian clade at the base of Neoaves: it includes such strange bedfellows as nightjars and other nightbirds, swifts and hummingbirds, kagus, pigeons, sandgrouse, flamingos and grebes, mesites, hoatzins and tropicbirds.

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006

Finally, there might be a hitherto overlooked metavian clade at the base of Neoaves: it includes such strange bedfellows as nightjars and other nightbirds, swifts and hummingbirds, kagus, pigeons, sandgrouse, flamingos and grebes, mesites, hoatzins and tropicbirds.

Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have productive, food-rich waters that make it a major foraging area for thousands of seabirds such as albatross, terns, boobies, shearwaters, petrels, tropicbirds, and other offshore species.

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve 2008

As recently shown by Gerald Mayr (2003) however, the morphological evidence best supports a position for the Shoebill close to Steganopodes, the clade that includes frigate birds, pelicans, gannets, cormorants and anhingas (traditional Pelecaniformes is not monophyletic as tropicbirds are apparently closer to procellariiforms than they are to members of Steganopodes).

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

ON THE CAUTERIZED nub called Rakata, formerly Krakatau, sea birds must have been among the first visitors: shearwaters and petrels, pelicans and boobies, tropicbirds, frigate birds, terns and noddies.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

ON THE CAUTERIZED nub called Rakata, formerly Krakatau, sea birds must have been among the first visitors: shearwaters and petrels, pelicans and boobies, tropicbirds, frigate birds, terns and noddies.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Though it appeared to be dusty and barren at first sight, the craters with which the surface was pocked were full of dazzling white-tailed tropicbirds, brilliant Telfair's skinks and Guenther's geckos.

Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990