Red Billed Tropicbird

Vintage Wild Bryde red-billed tropicbird earrings in gold and silver/rhodium finishes, a collectible photo-etched brass design with elegant, soaring lines. Though its life is spent over open tropical seas rather than the forest canopy, this detailed bird captures the graceful energy of the Wild Bryde collection as refined wearable art.

Those twin, trailing tail streamers—the defining feature of *Phaethon aethereus*—are kept light and wearable here through delicate photo-etched brass. Mike Warner etched fine crosswise lines across the back to mimic the bird's dark barring, alongside a distinct stripe running through the eye. Finding these ocean wanderers in the Wild Bryde catalog is quite scarce today, particularly in the silver-rhodium finish.

• Subject: Seabirds
• Category: Single Species Portraits
• Form: Earrings
• Finish: Gold Plated, Rhodium Plated
• Rarity: scarce
• Tags: Species Photo, Theme Overlap
• Reference: THR-02

Red Billed Tropicbird is a vintage Wild Bryde earrings featuring seabirds. This entry in the Wild Bryde Unofficial Collectors Guide documents the piece with photographs and collector notes for identification.