What is Red-billed Tropicbird?
{{Taxobox | name = Red-billed Tropicbird | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{IUCN2008|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2008|id=144607|title=Phaethon aethereus|downloaded=16 April 2009}}</ref> | image = Phaethon aethereus Little Tobago.jpg | image_width = 250px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Phaethontiformes]] | familia = [[tropicbird|Phaethontidae]] | genus = ''[[tropicbird|Phaethon]]'' | species = '''''P. aethereus''''' | binomial = ''Phaethon aethereus'' | binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758 }} [[File:Phaethon aethereus MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.2.7.jpg|thumb| ''Phaethon aethereus'']] The '''Red-billed Tropicbird,''' ''Phaethon aethereus,'' also known as the '''Boatswain Bird''' is a [[tropicbird]], one of three closely related [[seabird]]s of tropical oceans. It occurs in the tropical [[Atlantic (ocean)|Atlantic]], eastern [[Pacific]] and [[Indian Ocean]]s. The Indian Ocean race of the Red-billed Tropicbird, ''P. a. indicus'', was at one time considered a full species, the '''Lesser Red-billed Tropicbird''' from [[Pakistan]] and the western [[Republic of India]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Birds of Pakistan]] [[Category:Seabirds]]