Phaethon rubricauda, Red-tailed tropicbird
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Phaethon rubricauda   Boddaert, 1783

Red-tailed tropicbird
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Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Aves | Pelecaniformes | Phaethontidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range Ekologi

Pelagiska.  Tropical; 39°N - 38°S (Ref. 96995)

Distribution Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Indo-Pacific and Southern Atlantic. Tropical and subtropical.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 78.0 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 84934); publicerad maxvikt: 850.00 g (Ref. 356)

Short description Morfologi

Culmen: 6.24 cm; tarsus: 2.82 cm; wing: 21.87 cm.

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Total Length: 30 to 35 cm; Wingspan: 104 cm (Ref. 8812). Length: 78 cm; Wingspan: 107 cm (Ref. 91362). Found <500 km offshore (Ref. 356). Generally pelagic during non-breeding season. Loosely colonial. Solitary at sea (Ref. 96995). Sometimes trail ships (Ref. 91362). Usually forages alone, but occasional with other species, most often far from land (Ref. 122680). Exhibits deep-diving plunge (Ref. 356). Main diet includes flyingfish, but also takes squid, mackerel scads, dolphinfish, truncated sunfish and balloonfish (Ref. 122680).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Annual breeding cycle.

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Lepage, D. 2007 Avibase -the World Bird Database. http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp [accessed 09/07/2007]. (Ref. 7816)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 09 December 2019

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Internet-källor

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Resiliens (Ref. 69278): Hög, lägsta populationsfördubblingstid mindre än 15 månader (K=7.66-25.94).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (51 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.