Bird - Tropic Bird / Tropicbird by Audubon art postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Tropic Bird from The Brids of America by John James Audubon 1935, National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Publisher:  Running Press Book Publishers
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds now classified in their own order Phaethontiformes. Their relationship to other living birds is unclear, and they appear to have no close relatives. There are three species in one genus, Phaethon. They have predominantly white plumage with elongated tail feathers and small feeble legs and feet.

Tropicbirds were traditionally grouped in the order Pelecaniformes, which contained the pelicans, cormorants and shags, darters, gannets and boobies and frigatebirds; in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the Pelecaniformes were united with other groups into a large ""Ciconiiformes"". More recently this grouping has been found to be massively paraphyletic (missing closer relatives of its distantly related groups) and split again.

Recent research suggests that the Pelecaniformes as traditionally defined are paraphyletic too. The tropicbirds and the related prehistoric family Prophaethontidae are considered a distinct order, Phaethontiformes, not closely related to any other living birds. They are more distantly related to the Procellariiformes (Mayr, 2003; Bourdon et al., 2005).

type=printed postcards

theme=animals

sub-theme=birds

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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