Title: Red-billed tropicbird
Content: Royal Society. It was one of the many bird species originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae", and still bears its original scientific name, "Phaethon aethereus". The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek "phaethon", "sun" while the species name comes from Latin "aetherius", "heavenly". This bird is called the red-billed tropicbird due to its red bill and its location in the tropicbird genus. An alternative common name was "bosun bird", also spelt "boatswain bird", from the similarity of its shrill call to a boatswain's whistle. An alternative derivation of the name is

Title: Protoavis
Content: Protoavis Protoavis (meaning "first bird") is a problematic dinosaurian taxon known from fragmentary remains from Late Triassic Norian stage deposits near Post, Texas. Much controversy remains over the animal, and there are many different interpretations of what "Protoavis" actually is. When it was first described, the fossils were described as being from a primitive bird which, if the identification is valid, would push back avian origins some 60-75 million years. The original describer of "Protoavis texensis", Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, interpreted the type specimen to have come from a single animal, specifically a 35 cm tall bird that

Title: Giza writing board
Content: as the cities "Iret-Nemty" ("where Nemty works") and "Tefet-Khnum" ("where they gather together for Khnum"). Another city, "Tenmet afefi" ("hill of the flies") is of particular interest, because it shows by far the earliest hieroglyph of a house fly. The first sacrifice list comprises six birds, most of them goose and duck species. However, despite the detailed and naturalistic drawings, it remains difficult to Egyptologists and ornithologists to identify some of the depicted species. The first bird can be identified as a Sennar guineafowl. This bird is known in hieroglyphic writings as "Neh"-bird, its signs stands for "being attentive" or

Title: Frigatebird
Content: In his journal entry for 29 September he used the word "rabiforçado", modern Spanish "rabihorcado" or forktail. In the Caribbean frigatebirds were called Man-of-War birds by English mariners. This name was used by the English explorer William Dampier in his book "An Account of a New Voyage Around the World" published in 1697: The Man-of-War (as it is called by the English) is about the bigness of a Kite, and in shape like it, but black; and the neck is red. It lives on Fish yet never lights on the water, but soars aloft like a Kite, and when it

Title: Precursor (bird)
Content: description's conclusions difficult to verify. At least some of the material, namely the paratype humerus of ""P." parvus", has been re-interpreted as belonging to the Pseudasturidae (or Halcyornithidae), a group of stem-parrots The remains of which (including a complete skeleton) were found in the Green River Formation in the United States. Precursor (bird) "Precursor" is a controversial prehistoric bird genus from the Early Eocene. It was established based on fossils found in England, including in the famous London Clay deposits. Three species are included in the genus: ""P." parvus", the type species; ""P." litorhinus", and ""P." magnus", all named by

Question: What is the name of the so-called 'first-bird'?
Answer: Archaeopteryx