Photo By/Credit
Kahn, Noah/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
03/05/2012Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
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The red-tailed tropicbird is a showy, white seabird related to boobies and frigatebirds. Adult males and females are mostly white, except for partial black eye ring and short eye line, black flanks, and black shafts of outer primaries; both sexes have long, narrow, tail feathers with red shafts.