The Red-Tailed Tropic Bird
On one of our last days of research on the motus of Aitutaki, the sandy beach crew sampled the motu of Maina. To our surprise, this motu turned out to be a nesting site for red-tailed tropic birds (Phaethon rubricauda) and we were sampling during breeding season. Like other seabird species, tropic birds make very […]
