#red-billed tropicbird

[triruntu]

#518, a red-billed tropicbird.

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I finished my painting! :D a tad inspired by Disco's graphic style, it's mostly a breakup piece, homage to one of my favorite songs.

"Chau"

90x70 cm

Acrylic on canvas

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Animal of the Day!

Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)

(Photo by Sharif Uddin)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Coastlines along the Equator

Size (Weight/Length)- 105 cm inscluding tail streamers

Diet- Squid; Fish

Cool Facts- Despite resembling a tern, you won’t see a red-billed tropicbird nearly as far north. They prefer muggy coastlines along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Having very weak leg muscles, these tropicbirds only come to land to raise a family. The rest of their life is spent soaring over the ocean at 45 kilometers per hour. Despite not being able to swim very well, red-billed tropicbirds dive into the ocean from over 40 meters above the waves to catch fish and squid. Being a solitary hunter, they will sometimes follow larger, aquatic predators like dolphins to schools of fish. 

Rating- 11/10 (Cool beak, cooler tail.)

[snototter]

A red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) with its chick in Trinidad and Tobago

by Charles Sharp

[echo-bleu]

"For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved."

Elwing, taking the shape of a red-billed tropicbird.

I've had this image in my head for a long while, but I let it stew until I felt like I had a good enough handle on how to light it, and I'm very happy with the result.

ID in alt. Please reblog if you like it!

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Red-tailed Tropicbird

Photo: Bill Bacon

"This graceful seabird ranges widely in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, and may be seen by visitors to Hawaii. In North American waters it has been found far off the coast of California, where it may be a rare but regular visitor more than 100 miles from land. Even more than its relatives, it seems to wander great distances away from its nesting islands."

- Audubon Field Guide

[floridensis]

when i was like 9-10 i had a guide to florida birds that i would just look at constantly. i would take it with me everywhere. i still have it

i have a mental list of a bunch of birds i liked and formed a vaguely parasocial relationship with but hadnt to my knowledge seen in my one decade of life but really wanted to. the mental list has never left me and i get so excited every time i see something on the Mental List that i havent seen before

the birds:

common loon [i found a dead one once does that count]

pied billed grebe ✅

white-tailed tropicbird

northern gannet

american white pelican

magnificent frigatebird ✅

american bittern

least bittern

snowy egret ✅

little blue heron ✅

reddish egret

glossy ibis ✅

roseate spoonbill ✅

wood stork ✅

fulvous whistling duck

wood duck ✅

bufflehead

hooded merganser ✅

ruddy duck ✅

crested caracara

american kestrel ✅

northern bobwhite

purple gallinule ✅

black necked stilt ✅

black skimmer

white-crowned pigeon ✅

common ground dove ✅

downy woodpecker ✅

pileated woodpecker ✅

loggerhead shrike ✅

florida scrub-jay [i apparently saw them as a child but barely remember]

cedar waxwing ✅

blackburnian warbler

black and white warbler ✅

ovenbird ✅

summer tanager

scarlet tanager

rose-breasted grosbeak

indigo bunting

painted bunting

bobolink

red winged blackbird ✅

scarlet ibis

dovekie

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dovekie

dovekie

[barry-kent-mackay]

Magnificent Frigatebird (upper); Red-tailed Tropicbird; Yellow-billed Tropicbird.  While it is a fascinating background, he got the wing shape of the frigatebirds all wrong, and for some reason didn’t paint the Red-tailed Tropicbird with a red-tail.  Tropicbird tails are flexible, and undulate with each wingbeat, which is not shown.  I wonder if he saw these birds in life?  From the National Geographic series.

art by major allan brooks

text by barry kent mackay

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Maartens snail mail

Ricardo is also an outstanding bird guide and has own business, Arrowhead Birding. He does this through his work at NEPA and also tireless volunteer efforts educating youth in schools and taking Jamaicans out birding for our Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival and World Migratory Bird Day.

He is committed to doing all he can to ensure that Jamaica’s birds and wild places are conserved for future generations to enjoy. Ricardo Miller works as a biologist for the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) in Jamaica. Binkie’s passion is infectious – we are lucky to have him as a partner for both education and bird tourism!!! Recently retired, Binkie is also a certified bird guide – he took our Caribbean Birding Trail Guide Training Workshop in 2016 and has been helping visitors and residents alike to find and enjoy birds on his home island. Martin, educating hundreds of youth and community members about the beauty and value of our birds. Since then Binkie has been putting what he learned to excellent use in S int Maarten/ St. We first met Binkie van Es in 2014 when he attended our BirdSleuth Caribbean International Training Workshop, an innovative education program that reaches thousands of youth across 18 islands. His enthusiasm and sense of humor are always a delight! He is a founding member of AMAZONA – a local bird NGO, active in Guadeloupe with over 300 members. Anthony is co-chair of our Checklists Working Group. When he is not shaving -), he is also the Guadeloupian coordinator of the World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) since its inception in 2006 and served as Regional Coordinator for many years. He is currently carrying out research to advance our knowledge of the impacts of hunting on shorebirds in Guadeloupe. Thanks to Jeff for donating so much time to us to help us advance conservation of Caribbean Birds!Īnthony Levesque has discovered over 40 species never before recorded in Guadeloupe and banded more than 10,000 birds.

His enthusiasm, knowledge, and love of birds is inspiring. Jeff is a facilitator at many of our training workshops and conferences. He has provided critical help to us in developing our bird monitoring programs as well as our own eBird Caribbean online portal. Jeff has been a long-time member and key partner of BirdsCaribbean. Jeff Gerbracht is the Lead Application Developer for eBird at the Cornell Lab or Ornithology. She has published a number of papers on different taxonomic groups, but always tends to gravitate towards birds. and leading local education events for World Migratory Bird Day and the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival. She is an active member, attending our various workshops and conferences, carrying out waterbird monitoring through the Caribbean Waterbird Census. Hannah is Secretary of the Board of Directors of BirdsCaribbean starting Jan 2018. Eustatius since 2012 but also conducts research and monitoring on other avifauna, such as the Bridled Quail-dove. She has been studying the nesting ecology of Red-billed Tropicbirds on St.

Next up is Hannah Madden, a biologist working with the Caribbean Netherlands Science Institute based in St. Congrats to SusGren Team and we look forward to further updates! BirdsCaribbean has been a partner on this project from the very beginning! Our initial Wetlands Education Training Workshop way back in 2004 was the catalyst for this work and we have assisted with fundraising and project planning. Drone footage shows recent progress on the restoration of Ashton Lagoon, which is underway now! After more than 12 years of hard work and perseverance, this -mangrove-salt pond-coral reef ecosystem damaged by a failed marina development is being restored to its former glory. Another short entertaining video in our series celebrating our 30th Anniversary! Thanks to our members and partners for sharing your thoughts with us in creative and entertaining ways!įirst up is our partner, Sustainable Grenadines Inc.

[triruntu]

#517, a red-billed tropicbird chick.

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2020 Audubon Photography Awards

Category: Amateur

Photographer: Joe Subolefsky

Species: Red-billed Tropicbird

Location: Little Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

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Wikipedia article of the day is Red-billed tropicbird. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2cKdcZ5

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Daily Bird: Red-Billed Tropicbird

Range: very rarely offshore, California and Florida

More information: here

Photo: https : // upload . wikimedia . org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Rotschnabeltropikvogel_8-7-2008_Abrolhos_%28R.Graf%29.jpg

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[goodeggshen]

Wikipedia article of the day for September 23, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for September 23, 2018 is Red-billed tropicbird. The red-billed tropicbird is a seabird, one of three species in the family Phaethontidae. Resembling a tern, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wings and back, a black mask and a red bill. Most adults have tail streamers that are about two times their body length, and generally longer in males than in females. Described by Carl Linnaeus in his 10th edition of Systema Naturae (1758), this species ranges across the Indian Ocean, the tropical Atlantic, and the eastern Pacific. Nesting takes place in loose colonies. A single egg is laid, and incubated by both sexes for about six weeks. After a chick fledges, the parents will usually stop visiting the nest and the chick will leave. Red-billed tropicbirds of all ages feed on fish and squid, catching them by diving from the air into the water. The birds sometimes follow surface-feeding predators that drive prey to the surface, where they can be seized.

[snailkites]

I’m excited to be able to announce it...

I am the American Birding Association’s 2019 Bird of the Year artist!

These are detail shots from the multi-part cover I designed for Birding, the ABA’s monthly magazine. 2019 marks the ABA’s 50th birthday, so the bird species featured in their logo, the Red-billed Tropicbird, was a natural choice. 

For more info, check out aba.org/boy or the upcoming episode of the American Birding Podcast, where I’ll talk about my work!

Thanks so much to all my Tumblr supporters. I can also be found under the username MeganDrawsBirds on Instagram and Twitter. Expect to hear a lot from me about the ABA in the coming year. And it’s not too late to join!