A mysterious visitor is haunting a coastal Maine island. Like most clandestine strangers, he prefers to avoid the limelight and is seldom seen. But he is faithful to his summer residence, returning ...

The Longtail Tropicbird Cam is now broadcasting live from Nonsuch Island. A spokesperson said, “The Longtail Tropicbird Cam is now broadcasting live from Nonsuch Island and can be viewed here. “Now in ...

Red-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert, 1783 (formerly, Phaëthon rubricaudus), also known as the silver bosun bird or as the amokura at various locations throughout its range, ...

A rare sighting of a Red-tailed tropicbird on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean has marked the northernmost documented record of the species and only the fifth known Atlantic sighting overall, ...

The White-tailed Tropicbird chick that has been followed since it hatched in April on Nonsuch Island has fledged successfully out to sea. A spokesperson said, “At 8.50am on the 4th July 2021, the ...

Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus mesonauta (protonym, Phaëthon aethereus), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the short-tailed tropicbird or as the boatswain bird, photographed resting on the deck ...

Big-time birder Bob Duncan was in a remote jungle camp in the Amazon basin region of Ecuador when he got the alert — even some of the most remote areas have Wi-Fi — that a white-tailed tropical bird ...

It's taken researchers 24 years to finally work out the sex of an elusive red-tailed tropicbird, nicknamed Whoopi Old Bird, on the Great Barrier Reef's southernmost coral cay. After 24 years, ...

The first longtail of the year to hatch out of hundreds of nests monitored around the Castle Harbour area in St George’s took to the skies for the first time on July 4. Live-streamed footage was taken ...

The cartwheeling tropicbirds of Christmas Island have long been a common sight in the northern Australian skies of the Indian Ocean with their elongated tails streaming in the sea breeze. A Christmas ...