Where can you see the Red-tailed Tropicbird?
Some of the best places to see the Red-tailed Tropicbird in the wild include Parque Nacional de Galápagos (Ecuador), Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park (United States) and Sydney Harbour National Park (Australia) — among 10 wildlife hotspots across the United States, Australia and Ecuador. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
San Francisco, United States
+384 birds+16 mammals
Windswept granite peaks rising abruptly from the Pacific, the Farallon Islands form a wildlife sanctuary of extraordinary seabird abundance and ecological significance just twenty-seven miles west…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYGreat Sandy National Park
Australia
+306 birds+40 mammals
Where coastal dunes rise inland from the Queensland coastline, Great Sandy National Park encompasses a landscape of remarkable ecological diversity shaped by subtropical humid conditions year-round.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHaleakalā National Park
Maui County, United States
+66 birds+4 mammals
Ascending from sea level to over 10,000 feet across a mere thirty miles, Haleakalā National Park commands one of the Pacific's most dramatic elevation gradients, where…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Hawaiʻi County, United States
+84 birds+2 mammals
Where volcanic slopes descend toward the Pacific across more than five thousand square kilometers, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park presents one of Earth's most dynamic laboratories of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKKīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge
Kilauea, United States
+79 birds+1 mammals
At the northernmost tip of Kauai, where the Pacific trades collide with volcanic rock, Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Sanctuary crowns a dramatic headland overlooking one of…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYMidway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
United States
+91 birds+1 mammals
Straddling the international date line roughly midway between North America and Asia, this atoll sanctuary rises from the North Pacific as a cluster of coral and…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYNational Park of American Samoa
Leusoaliʻi, United States
+31 birds+1 mammals
The volcanic ridges of American Samoa rise steeply from the Pacific, their slopes cloaked in tropical rainforest that cascades down to a coast where reef systems…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKParque Nacional de Galápagos
Santo Tomás, Ecuador
+139 birds+23 mammals
Volcanic peaks and weathered lava fields dominate this remote archipelago in the Pacific, where the interplay of cold ocean currents and tropical latitude creates an ecological…
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOSydney Harbour National Park
Sydney, Australia
+203 birds+26 mammals
Where Sydney Harbour's sheltered waters meet the sandstone headlands of New South Wales, a mosaic of coastal heathland, eucalyptus woodland and rocky shores creates one of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARK