Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)

Species Account

Ordered chronologically (not necessarily by HRBP number)

HRBP 5110. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), USNM 544878. Collected East Island, French Frigate Shoal, 15 Jun 1968. Photo © Peter Pyle
HRBP 0832. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Tern Island, French Frigate Shoal, 23 Jan 1989. © J. L. Megyesi
HRBP 1177. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 26 Feb 1998. © David Boynton
HRBP 1178. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 26 Feb 1998. © David Boynton
HRBP 1245. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetherus). Kilauea NWR, Kaua'i, 1 Mar 1998. © Chistian Melgar
HRBP 1246. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetherus). Kilauea NWR, Kaua'i, 1 Mar 1998. © Chistian Melgar
HRBP 1247. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetherus). Kilauea NWR, Kaua'i, 1 Mar 1998. © Chistian Melgar
HRBP 1248. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetherus). Kilauea NWR, Kaua'i, 1 Mar 1998. © Chistian Melgar
HRBP 1179. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), top, with Red-tailed Tropicbird. Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 12 Mar 1998. © Jim Denny
HRBP 1180. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 12 Mar 1998. © Jim Denny
HRBP 1181. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 12 Mar 1998. © Jim Denny
HRBP 1182. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 12 Mar 1998. © Jim Denny
HRBP 1183. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 12 Mar 1998. © Reginald David
HRBP 1310. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Point NWR, Kaua'i, 1 Mar 2000. © Christian Melgar
HRBP 5274. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Near Koko Crater, O'ahu, 3 Mar 2006. © Michael Walther
HRBP 5249. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Near Koko Crater, O'ahu, 8 Apr 2006. © Michael Walther
HRBP 5250. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Near Koko Crater, O'ahu, 8 Apr 2006. © Michael Walther
HRBP 5251. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Near Koko Crater, O'ahu, 8 Apr 2006. © Michael Walther
HRBP 5458. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Lehua Islet NW of Ni'ihau, 13 Jun 2008. © Lindsay Young HRBP 6325. Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus). Kilauea Pt NWR, Kaua'i, 8 Apr 2010. © Mike Teyura
Photographs and images contributed to Hawaii Rare Bird Photograph (HRBP) file, B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and part of The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle. See Introduction for more information.