red-tailed tropicbird

English

A red-tailed tropicbird

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• amokura

Translations

species of tropicbird

• Dutch: roodstaartkeerkringvogel (nl)
• Finnish: valkotropiikkilintu (fi)
• French: phaéton à brins rouges m
• German: Rotschwanz-Tropikvogel m
• Maori: amokura
• Marshallese: ļokwājek
• Navajo: atseełtsʼózí bitseeʼ łichíʼígíí
• Russian: краснохво́стый фаэто́н m (krasnoxvóstyj faetón)
• Spanish: ave del trópico de cola roja m, rabijunco colirrojo m

Further reading

• red-tailed tropicbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phaethon rubricauda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies