ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE STORK-LIKE BIRDS
Tropic Bird Species
The Tropic-birds, or”boatswains,”as they are often called by the sailors, number six or seven forms, some of which are occasionally found in the United States.
They have a compressed, pointed, and slightly curved bill, with the cutting edges of the mandibles serrated. In color the bill is yellow, orange, or coral-red, the wings are long and rather narrow, and the tail of twelve to sixteen feathers, of which the middle pair are greatly elongated and attenuated. The general color of the plumage is white or pinkish throughout, and very soft and satiny in appearance.
In general appearance the Tropic-birds are quite suggestive of Terns, although distinguished at once by the elongated middle, instead of lateral, tail-feathers.
From the Frigate-birds, their companions of the deep, they are distinguished by the color of the plumage, the shape of the bill, the absence of a bare spot about the eyes and no throat well as by the elongated middle tail-feathers.
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