Português: Grazina (Phaeton aethereus) no Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos
English: Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park.
Date 10 July 2012, 15:02:49
Author Mia Morete
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grazina_em_Abrolhos_por_Mia_Morete.JPG

The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), also known as the boatswain bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek phaethon, "sun" and Latin aetherius, "heavenly". The red-billed tropicbird occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Indian Ocean race, P. a. indicus, was at one time considered a full species, the lesser red-billed tropicbird from Pakistan and western India.
Order: Phaethontiformes
Family: Phaethontidae
Genus: Phaethon
Species: Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus, 1758