Photo by Gerald Ludwig (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOutside of the breeding season this beautiful bird will typically hang out by themselves. They may be found hunting in pairs but for the most part tend to be quite solitary.\u00a0 Naturally the Tropicbirds come together on the breeding grounds which are generally located on the tops of cliffs.\u00a0 After mating the female will lay a single egg (talk about putting all your eggs in one basket) which is incubated by both the male and female.\u00a0 After 6 weeks the egg will hatch and the chick will stay with Ma and Pa for about 3 months before leaving the nest.\u00a0 It is nice to see both birds working together to take care of their little one.<\/p>\n
Tropicbird Fast Fact – <\/strong>The Tropicbird typically takes part in amazing courtship displays.\u00a0 Anywhere from 2\u201320 birds will simultaneously and repeatedly fly around each other in large, vertical circles.\u00a0 While flying in circles they will swing their tail streamers from side to side.\u00a0 If the female likes the show then she will mate with the male in his nest site. As you can imagine disputes will occur from time to time.\u00a0 This would be like watching the Canadian Snowbirds performing their aerobatic tricks……but of course with jets instead of actual birds.<\/p>\nIt looks like we are done with the Tropicbird for now.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed Monday’s Wild Fact.\u00a0 See all of you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you read the title and looked at the picture then you are probably fully aware that we are getting away from the interesting frog species we learned about last week.\u00a0 That’s right, we are heading to the skies to learn about the Tropicbird.\u00a0 As you might expect, this bird species can be found in Tropical locations.\u00a0 It is funny how that works, isn’t it?\u00a0 At one time it was thought the Tropicbird was closely related to other large seabirds such as Pelicans and Frigate birds.\u00a0 Apparently, this is no longer the case as it appears the Tropicbird does not <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,46,1570,1572,4025,1571,1574,1569,1573],"yoast_head":"\n
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