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Phaethon rubricauda (Red-tailed Tropicbird)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It nests in colonies on oceanic islands. The species is also known by its Maori name, amokura.
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Infraspecies

Phaethon rubricauda melanorhynchos (Synonym of Phaethon rubricauda melanorhynchus, Red-tailed tropicbird)
Phaethon rubricauda roseotinctus
Phaethon rubricauda rubricauda (Red-tailed tropicbird)
Phaethon rubricauda westralis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
16
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 32.4731
EDGE Score: 3.51074
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  219 grams
Birth Weight [3]  54 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Ocean
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Egg Length [1]  2.638 inches (67 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.89 inches (48 mm)
Fledging [1]  3 months 1 day
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  70,000
Incubation [3]  45 days
Mating Display [5]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [5]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  33 years
Wing Span [6]  39 inches (1 m)
Female Maturity [3]  9 months 4 days
Male Maturity [3]  9 months 4 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests Australia Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands France Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands  
Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests Chile Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests    

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Caledonia New Caledonia No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No
Southwest Australia Australia No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Austromenopon beckii[9]
Saemundssonia hexagona[9]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 6Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Seasonal and inter-annual variation in the feeding ecology of a tropical oceanic seabird, the red-tailed tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda, M. Le Corre, Y. Cherel, F. Lagarde, H. Lormée, P. Jouventin, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 255: 289–301, 2003
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0