Latin name: Phaethon lepturus

Common name: White-tailed Tropicbird

GigaScience: http://gigadb.org/dataset/101033

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_tropicbird

Encyclopedia of Life: http://eol.org/pages/1048567/overview

Brief introduction: The White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus ascensionis (Mathews, 1915)) is the smallest of three closely related seabirds in the order Phaethontiformes and can be found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans. For a small bird, this species can travel far across oceans when not breeding.

Related papers:
Zhang et al., Comparative Genomics Reveals Insights into Avian Genome Evolution and Adaptation. Science, (2014).
Jarvis et al., Whole Genome Analyses Resolve Early Branches in the Tree of Life of Modern Birds. Science, (2014).