Casuarina equisetifolia (habit with red tailed tropicbird chick). Location: Midway Atoll, East of northsouth runway Sand Island
Date 9 June 2008
Source Plants of Hawaii, Image 080609-7979 from http://www.hear.org/starr/plants/images/image/?q=080609-7979
Author Forest & Kim Starr http://www.hear.org/starr/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starr_080609-7979_Casuarina_equisetifolia.jpg

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.